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The Jamaican laughing frog or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, ''Osteopilus brunneus'', is a species of frog in the Hylidae family endemic to Jamaica.It is found mainly inland, and lives and lays eggs in the water contained within bromeliad leaves. O. brunneus is characterized by distinct tympanum about 70% of eye diameter, finger disc 2 rounded and smaller than discs on fingers 3, 4 and 5, and an SVL of approximately 50mm. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. ==References== * Hedges, B., Koenig, S. & Wilson, B. 2004. (Osteopilus brunneus ). (2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ) Downloaded on 21 July 2007. ESTEBAN O. LAVILLA, JOSE A. LANGONE, ULISSES CARAMASCHI, W. RONALD HEYER & RAFAEL O. DE SÁ The identification of Rana ocellata Linnaeus, 1758. Nomenclatural impact on the species currently known as Leptodactylus ocellatus (Leptodactylidae) and Osteopilus brunneus (Gosse, 1851) (Hylidae) Browne (1756) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jamaican laughing frog」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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