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Scinax nasicus (Tree frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Scinax nasicus is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.94
EDGE Score: 2.3

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.8 grams
Litter Size [1]  13
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.535 inches (3.9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
El Palmar National Park II   Entre Rios, Argentina  
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park II 4006523 Bolivia  
Río Pilcomayo National Park II 123699 Formosa, Argentina
Ybycu'í National Park II 13915 Paraguay  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Predators

Helicops leopardinus (Leopard Keelback)[2]
Pitangus sulphuratus (Great Kiskadee)[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.
2Natural History of the South American Water Snake Helicops leopardinus (Colubridae: Hydropsini) in the Pantanal, Central Brazil, Robson W. Ávila, Vanda L. Ferreira and Janaína A. O. Arruda, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 274–279, 2006
3Anurans 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
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