Kurixalus naso

species of Amphibia

The uphill tree frog, long-snouted tree frog, Annandale's high-altitude tree frog, or proboscis frilled tree frog (Kurixalus naso) is a frog. It lives in China, India, and Myanmar.[2][3] People have seen it between 252 and 1631 meters above sea level.[1]

Kurixalus naso
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Kurixalus
Species:
K. naso
Binomial name
Kurixalus naso
(Annandale, 1912)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhacophorus naso Annandale, 1912
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) naso Ahl, 1931
  • Polypedates naso Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990
  • Aquixalus (Aquixalus) naso Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005
  • Kurixalus naso Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008
  • Aquixalus naso Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009

This frog lives in trees. Scientists do not think it lives in places that human beings have changed. The frog lays eggs in small pools of water that dry up for part of the year. The eggs hatch into tadpoles that swim.[1]

These frogs fight each other over good places to look for food. It only eats a few kinds of food, mostly animals without spines.[1]

Scientists believe this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place. Human beings change the places where it lives to make farms called jhum and to build dams that make electricity.[1]

First paper

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  • Annandale, N. (1912). "Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911–1912. I. Amphibia". Records of the Indian Museum. 8: 7–36.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Uphill Tree Frog: Kurixalus naso". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T58959A103870221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T58959A103870221.en. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Kurixalus naso (Annandale, 1912)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  3. "Kurixalus naso (Annandale, 1912)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved March 15, 2024.