Rana Pueblae
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The Puebla frog or Pueblan pool frog, ''Lithobates pueblae'', is a species of frog in the family Ranidae endemic to Necaxa River near
Huauchinango Huauchinango is a city in Huauchinango Municipality located in the far north of the state of Puebla in central Mexico. It is located in the rugged Sierra Norte de Puebla mountain region, filled with peaks, ravines and rivers that form waterfalls. ...
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Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
state, Mexico, where it is known as ''rana poblana''. It was thought to probably be extinct until 2010 when Dr. Georg Hantke from the National Museum of Scotland re-discovered it. Natural habitats of the Puebla frog are pine and pine-oak forests near permanent river systems, its breeding habitat. It is threatened by loss of its river habitat, damming of Necaxa River being an important contributor.


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Lithobates Endemic amphibians of Mexico Fauna of the Sierra Madre Oriental Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1955 {{Ranidae-stub