World Species : Leptodactylus mystacinus (mustached frog)

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Leptodactylus mystacinus (mustached frog)

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Synonyms: Cystignathus labialis; Cystignathus mystacinus; Leptodactylus labialis; Leptodactylus mystaceus labialis

Wikipedia Abstract

Leptodactylus mystacinus is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local name is rana debigotes, meaning approximately "mustachioed frog". It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, pastureland, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and ponds. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 11.85

EDGE Score: 2.55

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	15.3 grams

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Litter Size ^[1]	263
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	2.559 inches (6.5 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic Coast restingas	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Balsas dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Belizean pine forests	Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiapas Depression dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chiapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chimalapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests	Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Humid Pampas	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
La Costa xeric shrublands	Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Magdalena Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Meseta Central matorral	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves	Bahamas, United Kingdom	Neotropic	Mangroves
Motagua Valley thornscrub	Guatemala	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Oaxacan montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Panamanian dry forests	Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Pantanos de Centla	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Serra do Mar coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Mangroves
Southern Pacific dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Tamaulipan matorral	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Tamaulipan mezquital	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Tehuacán Valley matorral	Mexico	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Uruguayan savanna	Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Veracruz dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz moist forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Predators

Erythrolamprus typhlus (Blind Ground Snake, Velvet Swampsnake)	^[2]
Palusophis bifossatus (Rio Tropical Racer)	^[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.
♦ ²Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ ³Dieta e uso de habitat da jararaca-do-brejo, Mastigodryas bifossatus Raddi (Serpentes, Colubridae) em domínio subtropical do Brasil, Pedro T. Leite; Simone de F. Nunes & Sonia Z. Cechin, Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24 (3): 729734, setembro 2007

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