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Eleutherodactylus richmondi (Ground Coqui)

Synonyms: Eleutherodactylus lentus richmondi; Euhyas richmondi; Hylodes richmondi

Wikipedia Abstract

The bronze coqui, Richmond's coqui, coquí caoba, or coquí de Richmond (Eleutherodactylus richmondi) is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family. The specific epithet, richmondi, is dedicated to Dr. Charles W. Richmond. It is endemic to Puerto Rico, and its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Eleutherodactylus richmondi

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Eleutherodactylus richmondi

Attributes

Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Puerto Rican moist forests United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Caribbean National Forest 27831 Puerto Rico, United States    
El Yunque National Forest   Puerto Rico, United States    
Luquillo Biosphere Reserve 8617 Puerto Rico, United States  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Prey / Diet

Portoricoscia richmondi[2]
Scolopendra alternans[2]
Typhlops rostellatus (Puerto Rican Worm Snake)[2]

Predators

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.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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