Monday, May 20, 2013

Basic Information



The Lithobates castesbeianus is one of the  the most dangerous invasive species on the world. It has many common names like “Rana Toro”, it is gray, brown or green and slimy. They eat insects and little vertebrates like snakes, fish, birds and other frogs. It is a very big frog, measuring from 10cm to 20cm from the mouth to the anus (without including the legs). Its larvae can measure from 15cm to 18cm  of length. It was intruduced to Colombia as an economic activity. Its taxonomic classification is:
Phylum: Chordata.
Subphylum: Vertebrata.
Class: Anphybia.
Subclass: Lissamphibia.
Order: Anura.
Family: Ranidae.
Genus: Lithobates.
Species: Lithobates catesbeianus.
These frogs are perfect to sell as food due to their impressive size, so some people started to commercialize them.It came from the north-west part from the United States. This species has been reported on 13 countries of South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Guyana, Paraguay, Brasil, Argentina and Uruguay).

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20 comments:

  1. Alejandro ZuluagaMay 24, 2013 at 8:54 AM

    Really good information. Has many pictures. It is really entretain.

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  2. michael dennisMay 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM

    The information is complete and is relly interesting, Yes i think the people shoul be able to kill this specie in order to save the others. There is a grammar mistake because role not "rol"
    Also it is really colorful and has many images

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  3. Emilia HigueraMay 24, 2013 at 9:01 AM

    This blog is very good, nevertheless, you should be careful with some mistakes like aNphibia intead of amphibia. You should also be careful with repeating words. In general it was a very good job

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  4. Melissa LuqueMay 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM

    The information is well organized and complete, also it is easy to read and understand. The images are good and help to understand better the information.

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  5. Melissa LuqueMay 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM

    The specie should be extincted in Colombia because it is not its habitat. Also, some reserves shouild be created to preservate the specie without harmming others.

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  6. Emilia HigueraMay 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM

    for protecting other species, the frog should be exterminated from Colombia because this is no its native environment and because the species wont get extinct because there are native places where they live and wont die either.

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  7. Julian UrbinaMay 24, 2013 at 9:09 AM

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  8. Julian UrbinaMay 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM

    You should improve the spelling. The information is good and complete like the order but maybe you should change the references to the end of the blog.Good job.

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  9. Andrés VargasMay 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM

    The correct way to control the specie in Colombia is by killing it, it is the only way to do it.


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  10. MariaJoseJMay 24, 2013 at 9:11 AM

    The blog is easy and enjoyable to read. I like the photos that are being shown. Most of the information is complete but i dont find where is the information about what the government is doing to control the specie. I think in the section of pictures you could include more because there is only one or you could just delete that part and let the image as the rest.

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  11. Juliana TrespalaciosMay 24, 2013 at 9:13 AM

    the information is very good, but you have some spelling mistakes such as rol - role and aphibian-anphibian

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  12. Andrés VargasMay 24, 2013 at 9:14 AM

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  13. Isabel CardenasMay 24, 2013 at 9:14 AM

    the way to control it si to end up with the specie because as it is not from Colombia it damages the equilibrium of the environment.
    -Isabel Cardenas-

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  14. Daniela QuinteroMay 24, 2013 at 9:16 AM

    the information was really good and complete, you gave all the necesary and relevant information about the rana toro, also you have really good images.
    the only way to control this specie is to killing it because if not in a futre, probably it will extinct others and this one will take the place of the others.

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  15. Isabel CardenasMay 24, 2013 at 9:17 AM

    feedback: it is complete an organized but it has spelling mistakes, I couldnt find what the government is doing... complete it.
    -Isabel Cardenas-

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  16. AnonymousMay 24, 2013 at 9:17 AM

    The information you give is complete and is useful to learn about the "Rana Toro", also I think that the blog is well done and is easy to understand. The only major problem I find are some spelling mistakes.

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  17. Andrés VargasMay 24, 2013 at 9:19 AM

    The blog is well done, vey organized. It is complete. The pictures are very good and go with the topic. The structre is well done to. Some spelling mistakes.

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  18. Juliana TrespalaciosMay 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM

    a way of controling the specie could be to apart it from other species or killing it.

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  19. BocachicoMay 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM

    The way to control this species is to finish with it in Colombia, we can do this by advising people that every time they see one they can kill it, also if there is an special place where this frog concentrate,organizations that protect the environment can go and capture this frogs.

    I think the blog is feel organized, it is very complete as it has all the information ordered, it has plenty of images and even thought there are some spelling mistakes i think it was well done.

    -Laura Castro-

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  20. Tremarctos ornatusMay 27, 2013 at 3:31 PM

    I think the that the blog is very complete and orgainzed, also enjoyable to read. Also the design is very good (it has goodm images and structure).

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