Hyla savignyi

Hyla savignyi, also known as the Savigny's treefrog, lemon-yellow tree frog,[2][3] and Middle East tree frog,[4] is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.[2] The species is endemic to the Middle East including Israel, where it has been declared an endangered species.

Hyla savignyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyla
Species:
H. savignyi
Binomial name
Hyla savignyi
Audouin, 1827
Synonyms[2]
  • Hyla arborea ssp. savignyi Audouin, 1829
  • Hyla arborea var. savignyi
    — Boulenger, 1882

Etymology

The specific name, savignyi, is in honor of French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny.[3]

Geographic range

H. savignyi is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.

Habitat

The natural habitats of the Middle East tree frog are temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, temperate desert, arable land, rural gardens, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.

References
  1. Kuzmin, S.; et al. (2010). "Hyla savignyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T55647A11347491. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T55647A11347491.en.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
  4. Langsdorf, Markus; Ghassempour, Alireza; Römpp, Andreas & Spengler, Bernhard (2010). "Characterization of a peptide family from the skin secretion of the Middle East Tree Frog Hyla savignyi by composition-based de novo sequencing". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 24 (19): 2885–2899. doi:10.1002/rcm.4717. PMID 20857449.

Sources
  • IUCN Database "Global Amphibian Assessment" - Hyla savignyi (Status, distribution map, literature. Data posted May 2006) Downloaded on 26 February 2008.
  • Stöck M, Dubey S, Klütsch C, Litvinchuk SN, Scheidt U, Perrin N. 2008. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 1019–1024.
  • Schneider H. 2009. Hyla savignyi Audouin 1827 - Mittelöstlicher-Laubfrosch. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 5/II Froschlurche (Anura) II (Hylidae, Bufonidae). Wiebelsheim: AULA-Verlag. pp. 141–172.
  • Gvoždík V, Moravec J, Klütsch C, Kotlík P. 2010. Phylogeography of the Middle Eastern tree frogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Amphibia) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation, with a description of a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 1146–1166.


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