Discoglossus nigriventer Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943
Discoglossus nigriventer Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943, Copeia, 1943: 231. Holotype: HUJ ("Amphib. Discogl., No. 1, Collection of the Dept. of Zool., Hebrew University, Jerusalem"). Type locality: "East shore of Lake Huleh (Northern District, Safed Subdistrict)", Israel.
English Names
Israel Painted Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 51; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51, USFWS).
Hula Painted Frog (Global Amphibian Assessment, 2006).
Distribution
Lake Huleh region, Israel; possibly adjacent parts of Syria (Extinct, see comment.).
Comment
Known only from five specimens, four mentioned in the original description (a female, a juvenile, and two tadpoles); an adult was collected in 1955 and reported by Steinitz, 1955, Bull. Res. Counc. Israel, Sect. B,, 5: 192-193. Extinct due to swamp drainage and agricultural development; see Honegger, 1981, Biol. Conserv., 19: 142. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 137.
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