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| Hyla savignyi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyla |
| Species: | H. savignyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827 | |
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Hyla savignyi, also known as Savigny's treefrog, lemon-yellow tree frog,[2][3] and Middle East tree frog,[4] is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.[2] The species is endemic to the Middle East, where it has been declared an endangered species.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, savignyi, is in honor of French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]H. savignyi is found in Bulgaria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.
Habitat
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ Sergius Kuzmin, Ahmad Mohammed Mousa Disi, Gad Degani, David Tarkhnishvili, Boris Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Steven Anderson, Riyad Sadek, Souad Hraoui-Bloquet, Avital Gasith, Eldad Elron, Sarig Gafny, U?ur Kaya (2009). "Hyla savignyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009 e.T55647A11347491. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T55647A11347491.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
- 1 2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
- ↑ Langsdorf, Markus; Ghassempour, Alireza; Römpp, Andreas & Spengler, Bernhard (2010). "Characterization of a peptide family from the skin secretion of the Middle East Tree Frog Hyla savignyi by composition-based de novo sequencing". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 24 (19): 2885–2899. Bibcode:2010RCMS...24.2885L. doi:10.1002/rcm.4717. PMID 20857449.
Sources
[edit]- 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
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Media related to Hyla savignyi at Wikimedia Commons
