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Rhinella icterica

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Wikipedia Abstract

Rhinella icterica (common name: yellow cururu toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae that is found in northeastern Argentina (Misiones Province), southern Brazil, and eastern Paraguay. "Cururu" is its indigenous name and refers to the male advertisement call that is a melodious tremolo.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhinella icterica

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.14
EDGE Score: 1.64
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  120 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Litter Size [1]  4,746
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (19 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Predators

Thamnodynastes strigatus (Coastal House Snake)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Choledocystus elegans[3]
Cylindrotaenia americana[3]
Ochoterenella digiticauda[3]
Raillietnema spectans[3]

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.
♦ 2Dieta de Thamnodynastes strigatus (Serpentes, Colubridae) no sul do Brasil, Raquel Ruffato, Marcos Di-Bernardo e Gleomar Fabiano Maschio, Phyllomedusa 2(1):27-34, 2003
♦ 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