Hyloscirtus criptico
| Hyloscirtus criptico | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. criptico |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyloscirtus criptico (Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The cryptic torrenteer (Hyloscirtus criptico) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it 2175 to 2794 meters above sea level. It lives in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes Mountains. It lives in cloud forests.[2][1][3][4]
The adult male frog is about 60.90 - 64.88 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 60.8 - 72.0 mm long. The male frog has a dark belly and the female frog has a lighter belly. The skin of the frog's backis dark brown with small spots of white or orange. There are dark brown stripes on the legs. There is a light colored area near the rear end. The iris of the eye is gray in color.[1]
The scientists named this frog criptico or "cryptic," or "strange." This is because they at first thought the frogs they caught were Hyloscirtus larinopygion.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Diego A. Ortiz (January 26, 2013). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Cryptic Torrenteer: Hyloscirtus criptico". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T78965851A176498096. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T78965851A176498096.en. 78965851. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
- ↑ Coloma LA, Carvajal-Endara S, Duenas JF, Paredes-Recalde A, Morales-Mite M, Almeida-Reinoso D, Tapia EE, Hutter CR, Toral E, Guaysamin JM (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of stream treefrogs of the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group (Anura: Hylidae) and description of two new species from Ecuador". Zootaxa (Abstract). 3364: 1–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3364.1.1.
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