Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth

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Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Amphibia
Linnaeus, 1758
Subclass: Lissamphibia
Superorder: Salientia
Order: Anura
Merrem, 1820
Superfamily: Hyloidea
Family: Leptodactylidae
Werner, 1896
Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae
Lutz, 1954
Genus: Eleutherodactylus
Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Subgenus: Euhyas
Species: E. limbatus
Binomial name
Eleutherodactylus limbatus
Cope, 1862

Measuring only 1/3 inch (11.7-11.8 mm), the Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth (Eleutherodactylus limbatus) is perhaps the fourth-smallest frog in the world.

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[edit] Mating calls and Reproduction

E. limbatus has a very intense mating call, but it is brief (6.9 to 24.8 milliseconds) and high-pitched (6.5 to 8.3 kHz), at a rate of 278 per minute. Female frogs have a single ovary and lay one egg at a time which is subsequently buried in the ground, where it develops quickly. [2]

A relative comparison of the world's smallest frogs.

[edit] Habitation

The frogs require are found in Cuba at elevations up to 1,150m above sea level, in closed canopy mesic and xeric forests. Their distribution is highly fragmented as indicated on this map, with the total land-area equaling 7,700 miles2 (20,000 km²).[3] Within this limited area, though, they are quite numerous. [4]

[edit] Coloration

The four subclassifications of E. limbatus are distinguishable by their varying colorations: orange in E. jaumei, brown clear in E. orientalis, brown-reddish in E. cubanus, and dark brown in E. iberia. All are brownish overall, with a black-colored ray pattern along the back and two intensely-yellow longitudal rays.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hedges, B. & Díaz, L. (2004). Eleutherodactylus limbatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 06 May 2006.
  2. ^ a b Anfibios de Cuba
  3. ^ 2007 IUCN Red List – Search
  4. ^ InfoNatura - Detailed Report