Rana Blanca
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Hypsiboas crepitans (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) |
The Rana Blanca, Rana Cantora, Rana Capina, or Rana Platanera (Hypsiboas crepitans) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, inland deltas, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
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- La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Silvano, D., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Jaramillo, C., Fuenmayor, Q. & Hardy, J. 2004. Hypsiboas crepitans. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.