Caucasian parsley frog
| Caucasian Parsley Frog | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodytidae |
| Genus: | Pelodytes |
| Species: | P. caucasicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pelodytes caucasicus Boulenger, 1896 | |
The Caucasian Parsley Frog (Pelodytes caucasicus) is a species of frog in the Pelodytidae family. It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and possibly Armenia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- Kuzmin, S., Tarkhnishvili, D., Tuniyev, B., Papenfuss, T., Sparreboom, M., Ugurtas, I., Anderson, S., Eken, G., Kiliç, T. & Gem, E. 2004. Pelodytes caucasicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
- Tarkhnishvili, D., Gokhelashvili, R. 1999. The Amphibians of the Caucasus. Pensoft Publishers.
- AT Chubinishvili, RK Gokhelashvili, DN Tarkhnishvili. 1995. Population ecology of the caucasian parsley frog (Pelodytes caucasicus Boulenger) in the Borjomi Canyon. Russian J. Herpetol. 2: 79-86.