Rohanixalus punctatus

species of amphibian

The black-spotted bubble-nest frog (Rohanixalus punctatus) is a frog. It lives in Myanmar.[2][3][1]

Rohanixalus punctatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Rohanixalus
Species:
R. punctatus
Binomial name
Rohanixalus punctatus
(Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)
Synonyms[2]
  • Chirixalus punctatus Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003
  • Chiromantis punctatus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006
  • Chirixalus punctatus Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020
  • Rohanixalus punctatus Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020
  • Feihyla punctata Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021

This frog lives in hills and between mountains. It lives on farms and in forests with evergreen trees. People see it on the ground and in small woody plants. Scientists do not know if this frog is hurt when people change the forest or if it likes places that human beings have changed. People have seen this frog between 0 and 300 meters above sea level.[1]

One of the places this frog lives is a protected park: Rakhine Yoma Elephant Sanctuary.[1]

The male frog sits on a plant 1 to 2 m above the ground and calls to the female frogs. The female frog makes foam and lays her eggs in it. She lays them on leaves over water. Scientists have seen female frogs laying eggs on Arum plants. No scientist has written about seeing the tadpoles.[1]

Danger

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Scientists do not know if this frog is in danger of dying out. People have seen it in places that human beings have changed. Scientists do not know if it is harmed by these "disturbed habitats" or if it survives better in them than in places human beings have not changed.[1]

First paper

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  • Wilkinson; Win; Thin; Lwin; Shein; Tun (2003). "Title not given". Proc Calif Acad Sci. 54.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Rohanixalus punctatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T58793A99945192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T58793A99945192.en. 58793. Retrieved August 4, 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Rohanixalus punctatus (Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
  3. "Chiromantis punctatus (Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 18, 2023.