Gracixalus Lumarius
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''Gracixalus lumarius'', also known as the thorny tree frog or thorny bushfrog, is a species of rhacophorid frog. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Vietnam and only known from Mount Ngoc Linh in Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Kon Tum Province. ''Gracixalus lumarius'' is an
arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the Animal locomotion, locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. Th ...
frog that is associated with relatively undisturbed montane evergreen and bamboo forest at elevations of
above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...
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lumarius Amphibians of Vietnam Endemic fauna of Vietnam Amphibians described in 2014 Taxa named by Jodi Rowley {{rhacophoridae-stub