Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Hylidae > Boana > Boana geographicaBoana geographica (Map Treefrog)Synonyms: Centrotelma cryptomelan; Centrotelma geographica; Hyla cryptomelan; Hyla cryptomelas; Hyla geographica; Hyla geographica geographica; Hyla punctatissima appendiculata; Hypsiboas geographica; Hypsiboas geographicus The map tree frog, Hypsiboas geographicus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, ponds, and aquaculture ponds. It was previously known as Hyla geographica. The name comes form the supposedly map-like patterns on its belly.The black tadpoles congregate in dense clusters in ponds or other calm waters. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 13.21 EDGE Score: 2.65 |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Litter Size [1] | 2,243 | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 3.346 inches (8.5 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Atlantic dry forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Bahia interior forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Beni savanna |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Caatinga |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Caqueta moist forests |
Brazil, Columbia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cerrado |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chiquitano dry forests |
Bolivia, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Cordillera real montane forests |
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan Highlands moist forests |
Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan moist forests |
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan savanna |
Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Iquitos varzea |
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests |
Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Juruá-Purus moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Madeira-Tapajós moist forests |
Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Maranhao Babatu forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Monte Alegre varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Napo moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Negro-Branco moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pantanal |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Purus varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus-Madeira moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Solimões-Japurá moist forest |
Brazil, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southwest Amazon moist forests |
Peru, Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tapajós-Xingu moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tocantins/Pindare moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests |
Brazil, Guyana, Suriname |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ucayali moist forests |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Atlantic Forest |
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
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Cerrado |
Brazil |
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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. ♦ 2Predation on amphibians by spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Neotropical region, Marcelo Menin, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues and Clarissa Salette de Azevedo, Phyllomedusa 4(1):39-47, 2005 ♦ 3Hábitos alimentares de serpentes em Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia, Brasil, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde & Augusto Shinya Abe, Biota Neotrop., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 167-173 (2010) ♦ 4Gibson, 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 |
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
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