Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Rhacophoridae > Buergeria > Buergeria robusta

Buergeria robusta (Brown Tree Frog; Tree frog)

Synonyms: Polypedates robustus; Rhacophorus robustus

Wikipedia Abstract

Buergeria robusta (robust Buerger's frog or strong stream frog) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family.It is endemic to Taiwan. It is sympatric with Buergeria japonica but is much larger in size.
View Wikipedia Record: Buergeria robusta

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.72
EDGE Score: 2.87
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Attributes

Litter Size [1]  600
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.642 inches (6.71 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
South Taiwan monsoon rain forests Taiwan Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests Taiwan Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kenting National Park II 78882 Taiwan

Predators

Ketupa flavipes (Tawny Fish Owl)[2]
Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)[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.
♦ 2Wu, H.-J., Y.-H. Sun, Y. Wang, and Y.-S. Tseng. 2006. Food habits of Tawny Fish-owls in Sakatang Stream, Taiwan Journal of Raptor Research 40:111-119
♦ 3Offshore Insular Variation in the Diet of the Taiwanese Bamboo Viper Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt), Simon Creer, Wen-Hao Chou, Anita Malhotra and Roger S. Thorpe, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 19: 907–913 (2002)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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