''Craugastor campbelli'' is a
species
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of
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 ski ...
in the
family
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Craugastoridae
Craugastoridae, commonly known as fleshbelly frogs, is a family of New World direct-developing frogs. As delineated here, following the Amphibian Species of the World, it contains 129 species. They are found from the southern United States south ...
. The species is
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 foun ...
to
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''campbelli'', is in honor of American herpetologist
Jonathan A. Campbell.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians''. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. .]
Geographic range
''C. campbelli'' is known from the
Montañas del Mico in
Izabal Department
Izabal () is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. Its coastal areas form part of the homeland of the Garifuna people.
Izabal is bordered to the north by Belize, to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, and by th ...
, Guatemala.
Habitat
The natural
habitat
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of ''C. campbelli'' is moist tropical
forest
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, at altitudes of .
Behavior
''C. campbelli'' is typically found at night, perched on leaves above the ground.
Reproduction
''C. campbelli'' reproduces by
direct development
Direct development is a concept in biology. It refers to forms of growth to adulthood that do not involve metamorphosis. An animal undergoes direct development if the immature organism resembles a small adult rather than having a distinct larval ...
.
References
Further reading
*
Hedges SB,
Duellman WE,
Heinicke MP (2008). "New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation". ''Zootaxa'' 1737: 1–182. (''Craugastor campbelli'', p. 45).
*
Smith EN (2005). "Two new species of ''Eleutherodactylus'' (Anura: Leptodactylidae) of the ''alfredi'' group from eastern Guatemala". ''Herpetologica'' 61: 286–295. (''Eleutherodactylus campbelli'', new species, p. 287).
campbelli
Endemic fauna of Guatemala
Amphibians of Guatemala
Amphibians described in 2005
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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