Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii)
Created: August 18th, 2009 - 09:41 AM
Last Modified: October 11th, 2013 - 09:36 PM Entered by: Will Flaxington
Record 28362
Last Modified: October 11th, 2013 - 09:36 PM Entered by: Will Flaxington
Record 28362
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Country: United States |
State: California |
County: Santa Clara County |
Time: 2002-09-13 00:00:00 |
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Qty: 2 |
Age: Varying |
Sex: -- |
Method: Visual encounter |
Habitat: Blue Oak-Gray Pine Forest (residual pool of intermittent stream) |
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Body Temperature: ----- |
Air Temperature: ----- |
Ground Temperature: ----- |
Humidity: ----- |
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Elevation: 2700.00ft |
Barometric Pressure: ----- |
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Notes
Both tadpoles and adults bserved in warm, clear, residual pools of drying creek. When approached, adults would leap from stone or bank into water and escape into vegetation and silt or under stones. No Rana catesbeiana were detected sharing pools. However, short distance away in surrounding Alameda and Stanislaus Counties, Rana catesbeiana were seen infesting residual creek pools. Because of the close proximity of predacious Rana catesbeiana to this fragile Rana boylii population, it is important to monitor this location and keep the two species separated. Yellow-legged frogs had previously been seen at this location a couple months earlier on July 23, 2002.
Entered by Jonathan Hakim & Will Flaxington
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