#eleutherodactylus

[markscherz]

Hello! I'm currently in Barbados and have seen a few herps so far!

Any ideas on ID?

Beautiful creatures!

The frog is Eleutherodactylus johnstonei

The gecko is Hemidactylus mabouia

The anoles are Anolis extremus

[geosesarma]

Eleutherodactylus planirostris, greenhouse frog, aptly named for its tendency to Just Kind Of Exist inside of greenhouses and greenhouse adjacent habitats (like hotel landscaping in Florida). These things don't have a tadpole stage either, weirdly enough, females lay their eggs in wet dirt and tiny froglets hatch out

[ormspryde]

Today's amphibian, using the prompt 'tiny'. This one is a depiction of eleutherodactylus iberia, an endangered Cuban frog measuring about 10 mm in length. In the spirit of the thing I drew it the tiniest I possibly could; in the original file it's 17 pixels tall.

[ID: A pixel painting of the black and orange frog Eleutherodactylus iberia against a green background. /ID]

[herpsandbirds]

Hello! Here is a cute frog I’m currently studying. Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi, the Coqui Llanero. They are a wetland obligate species of coqui endemic endemic to Puerto Rico. They are tiny, adults are about 22mm, and very cute. They were discovered in 2005 and are currently listed as endangered.

Thank you 💜 xoxo

[haropladraws]

“Ah, a Friend you see often but makes you happy whenever you do!”

designed a common coqui (Eleutherodactylus coqui) Friend for @verseno‘s birthday! thank you for being so helpful, and I hope the rest of the day (and year!) treats you right!!

[crazycatsiren]

Hi! Since you said you know a lot about Mozart would you mind sharing a fact you like about him or a less known music piece you enjoy?

He was only 5'4" tall. You know what they say, good things come in small packages? He had a phobia of trumpets when he was a child, then grew up with a hatred of flutes.

There's a species of frog named after him: eleutherodactylus amadeus, aka Haitian robber frog or Mozart's frog.

One of his less commonly performed operas, Der Schauspieldirektor, is a piece of work that I'm very fond of.

[bestfrogbracket]

Common Coquí: Named after their call, the common coqui is found in Puerto Rico. This call not only serves to attract a mate, but also to mark territory. A challenging male may enter their territory and begin a duel, where they call for up to several minutes and the first to falter loses. Adults climb higher in the canopy at night and return to the ground when humidity drops in the morning, while juveniles tend to stay closer to the ground. They lay their eggs on leaves in this canopy, where they hatch directly into frogs. Males guard these eggs – although they sometimes eat a few – and chase off any predators.

Black Rain Frog: This frog is found in the forested and mountainous regions of southern South Africa, not relying on nearby sources of water. Instead, it burrows in tunnels up to 150 mm deep or lives low in the foliage of the area. Eggs are laid in similar, shallower burrows, and covered with a few layers of unfertilized eggs for protection. The male also remains near the burrow to guard it from threats, even while continuing to call.

[boggedybloggedy]

I FIGURED OUT THE SOURCE OF THE MYSTERIOUS CHIRPING NOISE!!

So there is this noise. This mysterious chirping, chittering, high-pitched, hesitant noise that I've been hearing for who-knows-how long, but which I have been specifically trying to identify since March of 2020.

I hear it mostly at night, mostly near windows or out on the lanai. It sounds kinda like a frog, or a cricket, or perhaps some other kind of musical night time insect.

The weird thing about this noise is, it's non-repetitive. Every cricket, frog, toad, and cicada I know says the same thing or things on repeat:

Katydid, katydidn't. Katydid, katydidn't.

EEEEEEEEE (eeeeeeeeeeee) EEEEEEEEE

*Intense rattling noises*

Snort!................................ Snort!

But THIS mysterious critter has the cadence of a shy person asking if, maybe, you wanted to do something?.... But it's okay if you don't.... just thought I'd ask.... heh....

Over the course of three years, I've looked up everything. The sounds of mice, rats, southern flying squirrels (we have those in the US, did you know?), nocturnal songbirds, monkeys (I briefly wondered if we could have escaped troupe, a la-Miami) cockroaches (my ex suggested this one, and I'm so glad she was wrong) and of course various crickets and frogs native to Florida. The internet did not help me. iNaturalist doesn't excel at sounds, and the critter was soft-spoken, unpredictable, and generally hard to record anyway. I had no idea whether the creature was even a vertebrate, let alone what genus it belonged to.

Until last night. I had decided to bring my potted fern inside, and as I sat mindlessly scrolling on the couch, I heard the familiar sound. The answer to my question of three years was hiding in a green ceramic pot.

I kept the mysterious potted critters in my living room for a couple hours, trying to get my sister to hear the noise, before I finally took it outside, pulled out the inner pots, and saw THESE GUYS

They're aptly called Greenhouse Frogs (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) and they're native to Cuba, but have been introduced to Florida and Hawaii. They make cute noises, and I think I'm gonna make a little wetland planter for them on my apartment patio.

[that-fema-corps-blog]

Day 58

September 29, 2022

Note: I may not post regularly/elaborate much for the next few weeks. Work and mental health come first.

Woke up at 1:30, to the van by 2:00. We accepted our deployment request on the Deployment Tracking System once we were on the road. The group unloaded at the airport. Then our team leader dropped the van off at the nearest Incident Management Assistance Teams building and got a ride back to us. We each checked in to our flights, printed tickets, and checked a red bag and a personal duffel (if we had one). The tech cases were carry-ons.

It took two flights to get to Puerto Rico. I considered sleeping the whole time, but instead watched Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All At Once. I’m glad I did. The latter was quite something, and might go down as one of my all-time favorite movies. Much of it is absurd and a bit more than ridiculous, but it’s somehow quite earnest at the same time? I normally wouldn’t like something like that in live-action, but it works in its favor; it is a very strange balancing act that somehow comes together. Definitely not something I’d recommend to most people, though.

We picked up our checked bags, and then another team came with two vehicles to load ourselves and our stuff up. They dropped us off at a rental car place, where we transferred the bags to our team cars. We arrived at the hotel and checked into Deployment Tracking System soon after.

The coquí frogs are loud tonight! Didn’t realize such small frogs could be heard so clearly from several hundred feet away and through a few walls. Some more info, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Coquí is the common name for several species of small frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus native to Puerto Rico. They are onomatopoeically named for the very loud mating call which the males of two species, the common coqui and the upland coqui, make at night. The coquí is one of the most common frogs in Puerto Rico, with more than 16 different species found within its territory, including 13 in El Yunque National Forest. Other species of this genus can be found in the rest of the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Neotropics, in Central and South America. The coquí is an unofficial national symbol of Puerto Rico; there is a Puerto Rican expression that goes, “Soy de aquí, como el coquí”, which translates to “I’m from here, like the coquí.”

[popgenpapers]

Genetic variation among populations of, and evidence of deep divergence within, the Rio Grande Chirping Frog, Eleutherodactylus campi (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae)

http://dlvr.it/SnQDbN

[markscherz]

So last year I found some frogs hiding in this plant box we had that was stacked beneath another one.

I didn’t think anything of it until later when I found eggs in it and then I found:

Little tiny baby frogs! I didn’t know that could happen til I saw.

I left them there and they still live there now.

So what are they? They lived in like complete darkness

So this is an example of a case where I need more information to be able to help with an identification. I will very frequently also need location information to give a definitive identification. That helps to narrow down the possibilities quite substantially. Was there standing water inside the plant box? Or was it dry the whole time? THat's important, because standing water might have had tadpoles in it, whereas eggs in a dry environment could have hatched without tadpoles (which would dramatically narrow down which family of frogs these could be).

If I had to take a stab in the dark based on this info alone, my guess would be Eleutherodactylus coqui.

[geosesarma]

wretched little tiny dirt animals, Rhadinaea flavilata and Eleutherodactylus planirostris. R. flavilata is a tiny, fossorial native colubrid of damp pine flatwoods and hardwood hammocks, whereas E. planirostris is an introduced, extremely tiny frog native to Cuba and the Bahamas. They're often called greenhouse frogs due to their ability to hitchhike around in plant pots and established in greenhouses in colder climates. Unlike most frogs Eleutherodactylus lack an aquatic tadpole stage, instead laying their eggs in moist soil and hatching out as fully formed (yet absolutely miniscule) froglets. Their calls also sound exactly like a squeaky boot.

-8/23, Orange County, FL

[frogs-from-bogs]

Eleutherodactylus coqui by Wilfredo Falcón

[lulystalgianature]

Take the time to appreciate your little guests. Y disfruta de la naturaleza 🐸♻🌳

[bufomancer]

How delightful! This mountain coqui (Eleutherodactylus portoricensis) has found a wonderful leaf perch. ©2004 Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera

[dendroica]

Haiti's first private nature reserve will protect 68 species of vertebrates | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Professor S. Blair Hedges from Temple University and Haitian businessman Philippe Bayard, CEO of Sunrise Airways and president of Société Audubon Haiti, began working together nine years ago in an effort to raise awareness about Haiti's loss of wildlife and wilderness. The Haitian government took notice of Hedges' and Bayard's efforts and declared Grand Bois a national park in 2015. Then, in November 2018, Hedges and his team identified Grand Bois, along with a few other locations, as a biodiversity hotspot in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They determined this by conducting helicopter surveys of Haiti's remaining forests.

The national park designation helped create some protections, but the Haitian government has limited resources to adequately keep the park safe. Hedges and Bayard sought private funding to secure more land and to help pay for park management. They found the GWC and Rainforest Trust as willing partners to further protect Grand Bois. "Sadly, conservation efforts in Haiti were not producing convincing results and therefore the current system of protected areas is not working. Something different was truly needed," Bayard says in a statement from Temple University. Following two years of instability in the government, the coalition managed to complete the land purchase Jan. 18.

The Grand Bois mountain is part of Haiti's Massif de la Hotte mountain range, a key conservation region in the country and one of the most important habitats for amphibians in the world. Over the course of seven years, Hedges and Bayard conducted two expeditions through Grand Bois and documented 68 individual vertebrate species, including 19 critically endangered amphibians.

These amphibians include the Tiburon stream frog (pictured above), which had gone unseen by researchers for 40 years. This frog is a "unique lost species," according to the GWC, that made an evolutionary reversal to aquatic living after its ancestors had adapted to a terrestrial forest life.