Lithobates palmipes Spix 1824

Barrio-Amorós, César L. & Brewer-Carías, Charles, 2010, Venezuelan Guayana, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 1942, pp. 1-68 : 36

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.195474

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D57B711-FFE0-4271-FF55-FD6CDA17FC6E

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scientific name

Lithobates palmipes Spix 1824
status

 

Lithobates palmipes Spix 1824 View in CoL

Neotropical green frog, Rana verde verdadera, Murunashi

Camp V. 7 March 2002. EBRG 4679 View Materials (recent metamorph) .

Locality VI, several observed.

Large tadpoles (some with hind limbs) agreeing with the descriptions by Acosta (1999) and Hillis and De Sá (1988) were seen by day and night feeding on algae or resting on the litter in Canaracuni Creek. Three adults and juveniles were observed along 1 km of the creek. Lithobates palmipes is a highly appreciated food by Ye’kwanas.

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Ranidae

Genus

Lithobates

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