Invasion information |
Range in Japan |
Not established in Japan |
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Origin |
Unintroduced to Japan. |
Date |
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Route |
Accidental: Hitchhiking on building materials and/or garden trees, in the cases of other countries. The Florida invasive population might be introduced by hitchhiking on transport of plants (e.g., Bromelia). |
Impact |
Potentially: Competition with native frogs. Predation on native invertebrates. |
Regulation in Japan |
Import, transport and keeping are prohibited in Japan by the Invasive Alien Species Act. A congener E. planirostris is also restricted. |
Introduced range in other countries |
Lesser Antilles (St. Thomas Is., St. John Is., Virgin Islands), southern part of Florida, Hawaii, Galapagos, etc. |