Lu's little tree frog Courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
Guangzhou, November 4 (China News Network) According to the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau on the 4th, guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao - Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve recently carried out wetland sample line survey, the first time found lu's small tree frog, this kind of frog is known as "China's smallest frog", this is also the first time in Guangdong region to find this kind of frog.
The Loh tree frog belongs to the frog family, Tree frog family, endemic to China, and the model origin is Hong Kong. It inhabits shrubland or grassland in and around submerged puddles under seaside caves. The species is nocturnal, hiding in trees or dead leaf bottoms during the day, preying on termites or other small insects. From the beginning of March to September each year, the male attracts the female frog with a unique and loud courtship sound similar to the cricket whistling. Female frogs spawn on slow-flowing or stationary water plants or stones that live without fish, numbering about 120. Tadpoles are brown with a transparent tail and brown dots on them, and metamorphosis is completed in about 4 to 6 weeks.
Lu's little tree frog is known as "China's smallest frog" courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
According to the person in charge of the Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, in order to strengthen the monitoring of biodiversity in the reserve, in August this year, the staff went to Dangan Island and Erzhou Island to carry out the island-wide infrared camera grid layout and amphibian reptile sample line survey, and found Lu's small tree frog during the field investigation. "Frogs are one of the key targets of this sample line survey, we found that the Lu's small tree frog is in a humid habitat with streams, at that time heard a more unique call, and saw that its jumping ability is relatively strong, visual jump height of about 10 cm, remote has nearly 50 cm, you know, Lu's small tree frog is only 1 cm to 2 cm long." The reserve staff said this when talking about the discovery of the Little Tree Frog of Lu's.
The Loh tree frog is found on the islands of Tai Ho and Putai in Lamma, Hong Kong, as well as in Guangxi's 100,000 Dashan and Hainan's Wuzhishan, and was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2004. The discovery of the Lu small tree frog fills the geographical gap in its distribution in Guangdong Province, and provides new data for the distribution and habitat research of the tree frog family.
Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve is distributed in Zhuhai Qi'ao Island, Dangan Island, Erzhou Island and related sea areas, composed of Qi'ao Mangrove Forest Reserve and Dangan Macaque Nature Reserve, which is the habitat of many rare and endangered wild animals and plants. In recent years, the protected area has taken many measures to promote biodiversity conservation, not only cooperating with units such as Danzhan Village to carry out co-construction and co-management, carrying out a series of protection and rescue and publicity, but also focusing on improving the guarantee of hardware facilities, deploying infrared cameras, establishing forest resources monitoring centers, and promoting biodiversity monitoring and investigation.
Photo courtesy of Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve Guangdong Forestry Bureau
At the same time, the reserve also cooperates with scientific research institutions to carry out plant scientific investigation, amphibian and reptile sample line survey, macaque and other terrestrial vertebrate scientific investigations, etc., to effectively improve the management level of the reserve and provide data support for the formulation of scientific and effective conservation policies and measures. (End)
Source: China News Network