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The ecoregion occurs in elevations ranging from 400 to 3,500 metres (1,300 to 11,500 ft) on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia, extending into a small portion of southeastern Peru. It forms a transition zone between the Southwest Amazon moist forests to the northeast and the Central Andean puna and wet puna to the southwest.
The Yungas guan is found on the east side of the Andes in the Southern Andean Yungas of southwestern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It inhabits subtropical evergreen forest from below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) up to approximately 1,900 m (6,200 ft).
The Yungas tree frog (Boana balzani) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests , subtropical or tropical moist montane forests , rivers , and canals and ditches.
Yunganastes bisignatus inhabits tropical moist montane forests at elevations of 1,850–2,700 m (6,070–8,860 ft) above sea level.It is diurnal. [1] Males call from low positions (0.3–0.6 m (1–2 ft) above the ground) on tree trunks and bushes at night, and provided that weather is suitably foggy and rainy, during the day.
The Southern Andean Yungas consists of a mesic evergreen forest, with trees typically less than 15 metres (49 ft) tall. [citation needed] The species composition of the forests varies with elevation and precipitation. The foothill forests are a transition between the Yungas and the semi-arid Dry Chaco of the lowlands.
Yungas tyrannulet Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae Genus: Phyllomyias Species: P. weedeni Binomial name Phyllomyias weedeni Herzog, Kessler & Balderrama, 2008 The Yungas tyrannulet (Phyllomyias weedeni) is a Vulnerable species of bird in subfamily ...
Yungas dove Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Leptotila Species: L. megalura Binomial name Leptotila megalura Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1879 The Yungas dove (Leptotila megalura), also known as the white-faced dove or large-tailed dove, is a species of ...
Yunganastes is a small genus of frogs in the family Strabomantidae found in southern Peru and central to northern Bolivia. They were formerly placed in the genus Eleutherodactylus as the " Eleutherodactylus fraudator group", subsequently moved to Pristimantis , before becoming recognized as a separate subgenus , and finally, a genus.