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Pelodytes caucasicus (Frog)

Synonyms: Pelodytes punctatus caucasicus; Pelodytopsis caucasica

Wikipedia Abstract

The Caucasian parsley frog (Pelodytes caucasicus) is a species of frog in the Pelodytidae family.It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and possibly Armenia.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and freshwater springs.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Pelodytes caucasicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
45
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
57
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 86.78
EDGE Score: 4.47
View EDGE Record: Pelodytes caucasicus

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  415
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  9 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.857 inches (4.716 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Caucasus mixed forests Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex Russia, Ukraine Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests Turkey Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests Turkey Palearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 692723 Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia
Sochi National Park 478735 Krasnodar, Russia
Teberdinskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 210198 Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No

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