Rusty tree frog

The rusty tree frog (Boana boans), also known as the giant gladiator treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in South America and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

Rusty tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Boana
Species:
B. boans
Binomial name
Boana boans
Synonyms
List
  • Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758
  • Rana maxima Laurenti, 1768
  • Rana palmata Lacépède, 1788
  • Rana palmata Bonnaterre, 1789
  • Calamita maximus Schneider, 1799
  • Calamita boans Schneider, 1799
  • Hyla boans Daudin, 1800
  • Hyla palmata Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801
  • Hyla maxima Oken, 1816
  • Calamita palmatus Merrem, 1820
  • Hypsiboas palmata Wagler, 1830
  • Hypsiboas palmatus Tschudi, 1838
  • Lobipes palmata Fitzinger, 1843
  • Cinclidium granulatum Cope, 1867
  • Hyla lactea Lönnberg, 1896
  • Hyla daudini Lutz, 1973
  • Hypsiboas boans Faivovich et al'., 2005

Names

It is called ukato in the Kwaza language of Rondônia, Brazil.[2]

References
  1. La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Coloma, L.A., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Jaramillo, C., Fuenmayor, Q., Ron, S. & Hardy, J. 2004. Hypsiboas boans. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
  2. Manso, Laura Vicuña Pereira. 2013. Dicionário da língua Kwazá. M.A. dissertation. Guajará-Mirim: Federal University of Rondônia.
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