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- Title
Observations of Foothill Yellow-legged Frog predation by a native frog, snake, and giant water bug in a central California intermittent stream.
- Authors
LEIDY, ROBERT A.; RYAN, RACHAEL; MOIDU, HANA; RODRÍGUEZ-LOZANO, PABLO; BOGAN, MICHAEL T.; CARLSON, STEPHANIE M.
- Abstract
During the summers of 2015 and 2018, we observed predation on Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana boylii) by a giant water bug (Abedus indentatus), a California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii), and a Diablo Range Gartersnake (Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus) adjacent to 3 separate isolated pools along intermittent reaches of Coyote Creek, Santa Clara County, California, USA. To the best of our knowledge, our observations provide the first published record of California Red-legged Frog and giant water bug preying upon Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs. As pool habitat contracts over the course of the dry season, locally abundant Yellow-legged Frogs may be increasingly vulnerable to predation from a suite of aquatic and terrestrial predators.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; FROGS; FOOTHILLS; PREDATION; PREDATORY aquatic animals; SNAKES; AMPHIBIANS
- Publication
Western North American Naturalist, 2019, Vol 79, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
1527-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3398/064.079.0214