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Leucostethus Argyrogaster
''Leucostethus argyrogaster'' or the Imaza rocket frog is a species of frog in the family Dendrobatidae. It is endemic to Peru. Description The adult male frog measures about 19.8 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog about 22.1 mm. The frog has large disks on the toes of all four feet. The skin of the dorsum is light brown in color. The skin of the flanks is dark brown in color. There are silver stripes and white stripes down both sides of the body. The upper surfaces of the hind legs are cream-white in color. There is orange coloration on the inner parts of the hind legs. There is a white mark near the vent. The throat and chest are cream-white in color. The belly is silver in color. The iris of the eye is bronze in color. The male frog's testes are white in color. Habitat This diurnal, terrestrial frog lives in lowlands and submontane habitats. Scientists have observed it near streams in both primary and secondary forest A secondary forest (or second-growth for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough skin texture due to wart-like parotoid glands tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic, not from taxonomy (biology), taxonomy or evolutionary history. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest and associated wetlands. They account for around 88% of extant amphibian species, and are one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250Myr, million years ago), but molecular clock, molecular clock dating suggests their divergent evolution, divergence from other amphibians may exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dendrobatidae
Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the Family (biology), family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central America, Central and South America. These species are Diurnality, diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies. This bright coloration is correlated with the toxicity of the species, making them Aposematism, aposematic. Some species of the family Dendrobatidae exhibit extremely bright coloration along with high toxicity — a feature derived from their diet of ants, mites and termites— while species which eat a much larger variety of prey have Crypsis, cryptic coloration with minimal to no amount of observed toxicity. Many species of this family are Threatened species, threatened due to human infrastructure encroaching on their habitats. These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, aboriginal South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or, in scientific literature, as an ''endemite''. Similarly, many species found in the Western ghats of India are examples of endemism. Endemism is an important concept in conservation biology for measuring biodiversity in a particular place and evaluating the risk of extinction for species. Endemism is also of interest in evolutionary biology, because it provides clues about how changes in the environment cause species to undergo range shifts (potentially expanding their range into a larger area or bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Forest
An old-growth forest or primary forest is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without Disturbance (ecology), disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological features. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines primary forests as naturally regenerated forests of native tree species where there are no clearly visible indications of human activity and the ecological processes are not significantly disturbed. One-third (34 percent) of the world's forests are primary forests. Old-growth features include diverse tree-related structures that provide diverse wildlife habitats that increases the biodiversity of the forested ecosystem. Virgin or first-growth forests are old-growth forests that have never been logged. The concept of diverse tree structure includes multi-layered canopies and Canopy (biology), canopy gaps, greatly varying tree heights and diameters, and diverse tree species and classes and sizes of woody debr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Forest
A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused Disturbance (ecology), disturbances, such as Logging, timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomena. It is distinguished from an old-growth forest (primary or primeval forest), which has not recently undergone such disruption, and complex early Seral community, seral forest, as well as third-growth forests that result from harvest in second growth forests. Secondary forest regrowing after timber harvest differs from forest Ecological succession, regrowing after natural Disturbance (ecology), disturbances such as Wildfire, fire, insect infestation, or windthrow because the dead trees remain to provide nutrients, structure, and water retention after natural disturbances. Secondary forests are notably different from primary forests in their composition and biodiversity; however, they may still be hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago-Comaina Reserved Zone
The Santiago-Comaina Reserved Zone () is a protected area in Peru located in the Amazonas Region Amazonas may refer to: Places * Amazon River, known as ''Amazonas'' in Spanish and Portuguese *Amazonas (Brazilian state), Brazil *Amazonas (Colombian department), Colombia *Amazonas (Peruvian department), Peru *Amazonas (Venezuelan state), Venez ..., Condorcanqui Province. See also * List of protected areas of Peru External links www.enjoyperu.com / Santiago-Comaina Reserved ZoneSpanish) {{coord, 4.20947, S, 78.0359, W, source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Reserved zones of Peru Geography of Amazonas Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Mayo Protection Forest
The Alto Mayo Protection Forest (Spanish: ''Bosque de Protección Alto Mayo'') is an area of protected forest land in northern Peru. It is located in Rioja Province, Rioja and Moyobamba Province, Moyobamba provinces within the region of San Martín Region, San Martin, with a small part in Rodríguez de Mendoza Province, Rodriguez de Mendoza province, in the region of Amazonas (Peruvian department), Amazonas. This area preserves a portion of the Peruvian Yungas, tropical yungas forest in the upper Mayo River (Peru), Mayo River basin, while protecting soil and water from erosion by deforestation, as the area is the water supply of populations in the Mayo valley. History In 1963, the Peruvian government granted protection over the area, declaring it the Alto Mayo National Forest by Law No 442; however, in the 1970s, many people started to occupy the area and clear the pristine forests. Also, workers who built a road across the national forest began to hunt the yellow-tailed woolly m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucostethus
''Leucostethus'' is a genus of frogs in the Family (biology), family Dendrobatidae, in the subfamily Colostethinae. The frogs are found in the western Amazon rainforest. The members of this genus are unique among the Colostethinae in that both males and females lack dark colouration on the Anatomical terms of location, ventral part of their bodies. The genus is named combining the Greek language, Greek words ''leukos'' ('white') and ''stethos'' ('chest'). The following species are recognised in the genus ''Leucostethus'': * ''Leucostethus alacris'' (Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1990) * ''Leucostethus argyrogaster'' (Morales and Schulte, 1993) * ''Leucostethus bilsa'' Vigle ''et al''., 2020 * ''Leucostethus brachistriatus'' (Rivero and Serna, 1986) * ''Leucostethus dysprosium'' (Rivero and Serna, 2000) * ''Leucostethus fraterdanieli'' (Silverstone, 1971) * ''Leucostethus fugax'' (Morales and Schulte, 1993) * ''Leucostethus jota'' Marín-Castaño ''et al''., 2018 * ''Leucostethus ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphibians Of Peru
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excluding the amniotes (tetrapods with an amniotic membrane, such as modern reptiles, birds and mammals). All extant taxon, extant (living) amphibians belong to the monophyletic subclass (biology), subclass Lissamphibia, with three living order (biology), orders: Anura (frogs and toads), Urodela (salamanders), and Gymnophiona (caecilians). Evolved to be mostly semiaquatic, amphibians have adapted to inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living in freshwater ecosystem, freshwater, wetland or terrestrial ecosystems (such as riparian woodland, fossorial and even arboreal habitats). Their biological life cycle, life cycle typically starts out as aquatic animal, aquatic larvae with gills known as tadpoles, but some species have devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
