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Pristimantis avius

Synonyms: Eleutherodactylus avius

Wikipedia Abstract

Pristimantis avius is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family. It is endemic to Venezuela and currently only known from its type locality, the north base of Pico Tamacuari, in the Sierra Tapirapecó, Amazonas state. Its natural habitat is montane tepui forest. It is a terrestrial, nocturnal frog that have been found at night on low vegetation. No significant threats to this species are known. It occurs in the Parima Tapirapecó National Park.
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Attributes

Litter Size [1]  18
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.303 inches (3.31 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Pantepuis Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Amazonas National Forest   Amazonas, Brazil      
Formaciones de Tepuyes Natural Monument 1408056 Venezuela  
Yanomami Indigenous Area 23882673 Brazil      

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