Antilles coqui
| Antilles coqui | |
|---|---|
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| in Jamaica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Eleutherodactylidae |
| Genus: | Eleutherodactylus |
| Species: | E. johnstonei |
| Binomial name | |
| Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eleutherodactylus barbudensis (Lynch, 1966) | |
The Antilles coqui (also known as the Montserrat whistling frog or the Lesser Antillean whistling frog, Spanish: coquí antillano, scientific name Eleutherodactylus johnstonei), is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and heavily degraded former forests.
References
- Hedges, B., Ibéné, B., Koenig, S., La Marca, E., Ibáñez, R. & Hardy, J. 2004. Eleutherodactylus johnstonei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.
External links
Media related to Eleutherodactylus johnstonei at Wikimedia Commons