Tungara Frog

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Tungara Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Leptodactylidae Genus: Physalaemus Species: P. pustulosus
Binomial name
Physalaemus pustulosus (Cope, 1864)

The Tungara Frog (Physalaemus pustulosus) is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local Spanish name is sapito de pustulas ("pustulated toadlet"). It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and possibly Guyana. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, pastureland, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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• Santos-Barrera, G., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Wilson, L.D., Savage, J., Lee, J., Chaves, G., Señaris, C., Acosta-Galvis, A. & Hardy, J. 2004. Physalaemus pustulosus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.