Jumat, 19 November 2010

7 Unique Frog in The World

Transparent Frog

Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum, also called glass or crystal frogs as you can see through the transparent flesh. This species is not new, but they certainly are threatened with extinction, so the findings are encouraging for the environment.

Atelopus Frog

Atelopus frog is known by many names such as frogs clown or Variable Harlequin Toad of Costa Rica. Frogs, these are the kind of neo-tropical frogs that used to live quite widely spread throughout Costa Rica and Panama. The species is critically endangered and is now only a few mainly left only in Panama.

The World's Smallest Frog

This frog is found in the southern Peruvian Andes, with altitudes between 9925 and 10,466 feet above the surface laut.And is the smallest frog in the world.


The World's Largest Frog

Goliath frog or Conraua goliath frog is the largest remaining species on Earth. This frog can grow to 13 inches (33 centimeters) long from snout to tail, and weighs up to 8 lb (3 kg). This frog has a relatively small habitat range, mainly in West Africa (near Gabon). Goliath frog can live to 15 years. Goliath frog eat scorpions, insects and small frogs. These frogs have sharp hearing but had no vocal sac.

Frog Red Coat

Having a Red Coat orange / red on the dorsal surface / body. This small frog, reaching a size of 2.5 cm (1 in.) in length. This size is small, this frog is a frog native land Madagaskar.See unique is how this one frog.

Poisonous Frog

Poisonous toadstools with colors like sapphire blue, is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae, which is native frogs of Central and South America. Unlike most frogs, the species active in the daytime, and often shows bright-colored body.

Although all dendrobatids at least somewhat toxic in the wild, the level of toxicity varies from one species to the next, and from one population to another. Many species are critically endangered. Amphibians are often called "dart frogs" by a native indian by the use of their toxic secretions to poison the tip of his arrow.


Frog Darwin

Chile Darwin's frog is regularly seen until around 1978, but did not appear again and it seems to have disappeared, and now possibly extinct species.

This species, which live in leaf litter on the forest floor, has an unusual method in terms of parenting her children, male taking eggs from the nest into his vocal sac where they hatch into tadpoles after about eight days.

When he started to feel the newly hatched tadpoles wriggling, male frogs bring them into the river where he took off a young frog and here they completed metamorphosis.

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