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Hyla savignyi

{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Sergius Kuzmin, Ahmad Mohammed Mousa Disi, Gad Degani, David Tarkhnishvili, Boris Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Steven Anderson, Riyad Sadek, Souad Hraoui-Bloquet, Avital Gasith, Eldad Elron, Sarig Gafny, U?ur Kaya |date=2009 |title=Hyla savignyi |volume=2009 |page=e.T55647A11347491 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T55647A11347491.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Hyla savignyi

| authority = Audouin, 1827

| synonyms = *Hyla arborea ssp. savignyi Audouin, 1829

  • Hyla arborea var. savignyi
    — Boulenger, 1882

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Hyla savignyi, also known as the Savigny's treefrog, lemon-yellow tree frog, and Middle East tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. The species is endemic to the Middle East, where it has been declared an endangered species.

Etymology

The specific name, savignyi, is in honor of French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny.

Geographic range

H. savignyi is found in Bulgaria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.

Habitat

The natural habitats of the Middle East tree frog are temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, temperate desert, arable land, rural gardens, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.

References

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{{cite book |last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael |name-list-style=amp |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 |date=2013 |publisher=Pelagic Publishing |isbn=978-1-907807-42-8 |page=190}}

{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Hyla/Hyla-savignyi |title=Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2018 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=1 December 2018}}

{{Cite journal |last1=Langsdorf |first1=Markus |last2=Ghassempour |first2=Alireza |last3=Römpp |first3=Andreas |last4=Spengler |first4=Bernhard |name-list-style=amp |date=2010 |title=Characterization of a peptide family from the skin secretion of the Middle East Tree Frog Hyla savignyi by composition-based de novo sequencing |journal=Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry |volume=24 |issue=19 |pages=2885–2899 |doi=10.1002/rcm.4717|pmid=20857449 |bibcode=2010RCMS...24.2885L }}

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Sources

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717113123/http://www.globalamphibians.org/servlet/GAA?searchName=Hyla+savignyi IUCN Database "Global Amphibian Assessment" - Hyla savignyi (Status, distribution map, literature. Data posted May 2006)] Downloaded on 26 February 2008.
  • Stöck M, Dubey S, Klütsch C, Litvinchuk SN, Scheidt U, Perrin N. 2008. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 1019–1024.
  • Schneider H. 2009. Hyla savignyi Audouin 1827 - Mittelöstlicher-Laubfrosch. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 5/II Froschlurche (Anura) II (Hylidae, Bufonidae). Wiebelsheim: AULA-Verlag. pp. 141–172.
  • Gvoždík V, Moravec J, Klütsch C, Kotlík P. 2010. Phylogeography of the Middle Eastern tree frogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Amphibia) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation, with a description of a new species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 1146–1166.

External links

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savignyi

Category:Amphibians of Armenia

Category:Amphibians of the Middle East

Category:Amphibians of Iran

Category:Amphibians of Turkey

Category:Amphibians described in 1827

Category:Taxa named by Jean Victoire Audouin

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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