Web-footed Coquí

Web-footed Coquí

Taxobox
name = Web-footed Coqui
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = down
extinct = 1974
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
superfamilia = Hyloidea
familia = Leptodactylidae
subfamilia = Eleutherodactylinae
genus = "Eleutherodactylus"
subgenus = "Eleutherodactylus"
species = "E. karlschmidti"
binomial = "Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti"
binomial_authority = Grant, 1931The Web-footed Coqui ("Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti") also known as Karl's Robber Frog is a possible extinct Puerto Rican frog species from the coquí ("Eleutherodactylus") genus.

Description

It was first described by Chapman Grant in 1931 and was named after herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt. It was one of the largest coquí species and the second largest frog (behind "Bufo marinus") on Puerto Rico with a length of approximately 80 mm for females. There is little information about its ecology and life history. It was nocturnal. Their call was loud and sonorous. The eggs were laid in clefts or on rocks.

The semi-aquatic web-footed coquí belonged to the few coquí species which had membranes between the toes. But it was the only species which was fully webbed.

The web-footed coquí was endemic to the mountain streams and waterfalls in the Caribbean National Forest and El Verde cloud forest in the southeastern Puerto Rico. It was last observed in 1974 and is possibly extinct due to the fungal disease Chytridiomycosis.

References

* Database entry includes a range map, a brief justification of why this species is critically endangered, and the criteria used

External links

* [http://www.uprm.edu/publications/cjs/VOL03/P025-027.PDF On the Habits and Food of Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti GRANT]


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