Antilles coqui

Antilles coqui

in Jamaica
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Eleutherodactylidae
Genus:	Eleutherodactylus
Species:	E. johnstonei
Binomial name
*Eleutherodactylus johnstonei* Barbour, 1914
Synonyms
Eleutherodactylus barbudensis (Lynch, 1966)

The Antilles coqui (also known as the Montserrat whistling frog or the Lesser Antillean whistling frog, Spanish: coquí antillano, scientific name Eleutherodactylus johnstonei), is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Colombia, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and heavily degraded former forests.

References

Hedges, B., Ibéné, B., Koenig, S., La Marca, E., Ibáñez, R. & Hardy, J. 2004. Eleutherodactylus johnstonei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.

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