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Dendropsophus elegans

Dendropsophus elegans (*)

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Dendropsophinae
Genus: Dendropsophus
Species: Dendropsophus elegans
Name

Dendropsophus elegans (Wied-Neuwied, 1824)

Type locality: "Ponte do Gentio, rio Alcobaça, Caravelas, Bahia", Brazil.

Holotype: AMNH 784 .
Synonyms

Hyla elegans Wied-Neuwied, 1824
Dendropsophus elegans — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler, 2005

References

Wied-Neuwied, 1824, Isis von Oken, 14: 671.
Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91
Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Dendropsophus elegans . Accessed on 15 Apr 2008.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Dendropsophus elegans (Least Concern) Downloaded on 15 April 2008.

Vernacular names
English: Elegant Forest Treefrog

Dendropsophus elegans is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, plantations, heavily degraded former forest, and ponds.
References

Monique Van Sluys, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, Cristina Arzabe (2010). "Dendropsophus elegans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T55473A11316720. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-2.RLTS.T55473A11316720.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

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