''Hyla savignyi'', also known as the Savigny's treefrog, lemon-yellow tree frog,
[ The species is endemic to the Middle East, where it has been declared an endangered species.
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Etymology
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, ''savignyi'', is in honor of French
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zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny.
Geographic range
''H. savignyi'' is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, Turkey, and Yemen.
Habitat
The natural habitats of the Middle East tree frog are temperate 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 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 spring
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s, temperate desert
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, arable land, rural gardens, canals and ditches, and introduced vegetation.
References
Sources
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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Amphibians of the Middle East
Amphibians of Iran
Amphibians of Turkey
Amphibians described in 1827
Taxa named by Jean Victoire Audouin
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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