''Eleutherodactylus martinicensis'' is a species of
frog in the family
Eleutherodactylidae found in
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two maj ...
,
Dominica
Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...
,
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...
,
Martinique, and
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical dry
forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist
shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland
grassland,
arable land, pastureland,
plantations, rural gardens,
urban areas, and heavily degraded former forests.
It is threatened by
habitat loss.
References
External links
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''Eleutherodactylus martinicensis''at the
Encyclopedia of Life
martinicensis
Amphibians of the Caribbean
Amphibians described in 1838
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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