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Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis (Jamaican Bromeliad Frog)

Synonyms: Euhyas jamaicensis; Hylodes jamaicensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  28
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.181 inches (3 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Jamaican dry forests Jamaica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Jamaican moist forests Jamaica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park II 302400 Portland, Jamaica  
Cockpit Country Forest Reserve 54796 Jamaica    

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

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.
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