World Species : Boana faber (Blacksmith Treefrog)

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Boana faber (Blacksmith Treefrog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blacksmith tree frog (Hypsiboas faber) is a frog species in the family Hylidae found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, and ponds. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 11.55

EDGE Score: 2.53

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	95 grams

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Litter Size ^[1]	2,362
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	4.094 inches (10.4 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic Coast restingas	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bahia coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bahia interior forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Campos Rupestres montane savanna	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Serra do Mar coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uruguayan savanna	Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location	Species	Website	Climate	Land Use
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park	II	4006523	Bolivia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No

Prey / Diet

Scinax granulatus

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Predators

Leptodactylus labyrinthicus (Labyrinth Frog)	^[2]
Osteopilus ocellatus	^[2]
Thamnodynastes strigatus (Coastal House Snake)	^[2]

Consumers

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ ²Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ ³Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0