Middle East tree frog

Middle East tree frog
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Hyla
Species:	H. savignyi
Binomial name
Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827
Synonyms
Hyla arborea ssp. savignyi Audouin, 1829 Hyla arborea var. savignyi — Boulenger, 1882

The Middle East tree frog (Hyla savignyi) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. The species is endemic to the Middle East and especially Israel, where it has been declared an endangered species.

Etymology

The specific name, savignyi, is in honor of French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny.^[1]

Geographic range

H. savignyi is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.

Habitat

The natural habitats of the Middle East tree frog are temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, temperate desert, arable land, rural gardens, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.

References

1. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2013. The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1.

Sources

• Kuzmin S, Papenfuss T, Disi A, Degani G, Tarkhnishvili D, Tuniyev B, Sparreboom M, Ugurtas I, Rastegar-Pouyani N, Anderson S, Sadek R, Hraoui-Bloquet S, Gasith A, Elron E, Gafny S, Gardner A. 2004. Hyla savignyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
• IUCN Database "Global Amphibian Assessment" - Hyla savignyi (Status, distribution map, literature. Data posted May 2006) Downloaded on 26 February 2008.
• Stöck M, Dubey S, Klütsch C, Litvinchuk SN, Scheidt U, Perrin N. 2008. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 1019-1024.
• Schneider H. 2009. Hyla savignyi Audouin 1827 - Mittelöstlicher-Laubfrosch. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 5/II Froschlurche (Anura) II (Hylidae, Bufonidae). Wiebelsheim: AULA-Verlag. pp. 141-172.
• Gvoždík V, Moravec J, Klütsch C, Kotlík P. 2010. Phylogeography of the Middle Eastern tree frogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Amphibia) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation, with a description of a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 1146-1166.

External links

• Media related to Middle East tree frog at Wikimedia Commons