Roque tree frog
| Roque tree frog | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. phyllognathus
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| Binomial name | |
| Hyloscirtus phyllognathus (Melin, 1951)
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The roque tree frog (Hyloscirtus phyllognathus) is a frog. It lives in Colombia and Peru on the Andes mountains. Scientists have seen it as high as 2190 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]
The adult male frog is about 31.5–34.0 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 33.0–39.3 mm long. The skin of the front part of the frog's body is olive in color. The skin toward the back of the frog's body is the color of bronze. The tops of the legs and feet are green. There are small black spots on the front and middle of the body and on the legs. The edges of the mouth are yellow. There is some pinkish white color on the legs. The belly is yellow-white in color. The inside of the mouth is blue-green. The iris of the eye is bronze in color with black lines.[1]
This frog moves at night. It lives in mountain forests and hill forests. It lives near streams. The female frogs lay their eggs in streams during October.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Morley Read; Santiago Ron (September 23, 2022). Santiago Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus phyllognathus". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus phyllognathus (Melin, 1951)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Roque Treefrog: Hyloscirtus phyllognathus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55599A85902254. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T55599A85902254.en. 55599. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
