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Hula Painted Frog ( Discoglossus nigriventer ) is an extinct amphibian , whose range was limited to the Lake Huleh marshes in Israel . Due to Israeli drainage of the marshes in the 1950s, this rare species disappeared. This species had a dark belly with small white spots. It is colored ochre above and rusty colour grading into dark olive-grey to greyish-black on the sides. It furthermore differs from the common painted frog ( Discoglossus pictus ) by its greater interocular distance, longer forelimbs, and a less projecting snout. The type specimen was an adult female with a body length of 4 cm. Almost nothing is known about its life history, because it was only found twice by scientists: two adults and two tadpoles were collected in 1940, and a single specimen was found in 1955. This was the last record of this species. The four 1940 specimens were to be used as types , but the smaller, half-grown frog was eaten by the larger one in captivity (Mendelssohn & Steinitz 1943). The latter eventually became the holotype ( HUJZ Amphib. Discogl. 1) for the species' description and this or the individual collected in 1955 apparently is the only material remains of the species known today; the two tadpole paratypes (HUJZ Amphib. Discogl. 2 and 2a) appear to have been lost . It was originally referred to as " Palestinian " painted frog, as the state of Israel did not exist at the time of the species' description. Nowadays, with the definition of " Palestine " having changed, it is known as "Israel" or "Hula" painted frog. This species is classified as extinct by the IUCN since 1996, but continues to be listed as an endangered species in Israel on the slim hope that a relict population may be found in the Golan Heights . In 123, a scientist of the Lebanese nature protection organisation A Rocha claimed he had seen a frog species which could be Discoglossus nigriventer in the Aammiq marshes south of the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon . Two French-Lebanese-British expeditions in the years 2004 and 2005 brought no confirmation of the further existence of this species (Tron 2005).1
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begin begin placement regnum entry phylum entry classis entry ordo entry familia entry genus entry species entry end placement section binomial simple end The Israel painted frog ( Discoglossus nigriventer ) is an endangered amphibian , whose range is limited to Israel . v t e
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The Hula painted frog ( Latonia nigriventer ) is an amphibian and the only living member of the genus Latonia .It was thought to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011.It is endemic to the Lake Hula marshes in Israel .The draining of Lake Hula and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog, along with the cyprinid fish Acanthobrama hulensis and cichlid fish Tristramella intermedia .Only five individuals had been found prior to the draining of the lake.Environmental improvements in the Hula reserve have been cited as a possible reason for the frog's reemergence.American Museum of Natural History .
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Species of amphibian endemic to Israel The Hula painted frog ( Latonia nigriventer ) is an amphibian and the only living member of the genus Latonia . It was thought to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011. It is endemic to the Lake Hula marshes in Israel . The draining of Lake Hula and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog, along with the cyprinid fish Acanthobrama hulensis and cichlid fish Tristramella intermedia . Only five individuals had been found prior to the draining of the lake. Environmental improvements in the Hula reserve have been cited as a possible reason for the frog's reemergence. American Museum of Natural History .
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Species of amphibian endemic to Israel The Hula painted frog ( Latonia nigriventer ) is an amphibian and the only living member of the genus Latonia . The Hula painted frog was thought to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011. It is endemic to the Lake Hula marshes in Israel . The draining of Lake Hula and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog, along with the cyprinid fish Mirogrex hulensis and cichlid fish Tristramella intermedia . Only five individuals had been found prior to the draining of the lake. Environmental improvements in the Hula reserve have been cited as a possible reason for the frog's reemergence.
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Species of amphibian endemic to Israel The Hula painted frog ( Latonia nigriventer ) is a species of frog endemic to the Lake Hula marshes in northern Israel .It is the only living member of the genus Latonia , which is otherwise known from fossils from Europe spanning from the Oligocene through Pleistocene . The Hula painted frog was thought to be extinct as a result of habitat destruction during the 1950s until the species was rediscovered in 2011. The draining of Lake Hula and its marshes in the 1950s was thought to have caused the extinction of this frog, along with the cyprinid fish Mirogrex hulensis and cichlid fish Tristramella intermedia . Only five individuals had been found prior to the draining of the lake. Environmental improvements in the Hula reserve have been cited as a possible reason for the frog's reemergence.
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amphibian and the only living member of the genus latonia
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species of frog endemic to the lake hula marshes in northern israel
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