Rana Pinguino

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Rana Pinguino
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Microhylidae Genus: Elachistocleis Species: E. bicolor
Binomial name
Elachistocleis bicolor (Guérin-Meneville, 1838)

The Rana Pinguino or Sapito Panza Amarilla (Elachistocleis bicolor) is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

[edit] Source

• Lavilla, E., di Tada, I. & Langone, J. 2004. Elachistocleis bicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.