Tepuihyla obscura

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Tepuihyla obscura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Tepuihyla
Species:
T. obscura
Binomial name
Tepuihyla obscura
Kok, Ratz, Tegelaar, Aubret, and Means, 2015

Tepuihyla obscura is a frog. It lives in Venezuela. Scientists have seen it high up in the Chimantá Massif, between 1800 and 2600 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

The adult male frog is 32.05 to 37.12 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog can be 26.44 to 33.67 mm. The skin on the frog's back is gray or gray-brown in color with darker marks.

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The tadpoles swim in pools where the water is not deep, in puddles in rocks, or in peat bogs.[4]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Tepuihyla obscura". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2021). "Tepuihyla obscura". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T88219594A109546400. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T88219594A109546400.en. S2CID 242384327. 88219594. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. "Tepuihyla obscura (Kok, Ratz, Tegelaar, Aubret, and Means, 2015)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Philippe J. R. Kok; Sebastian Ratz; Marco Tegelaar; Fabien Aubret (2015). "Out of taxonomic limbo: A name for the species of Tepuihyla (Anura: Hylidae) from the Chimantá Massif, Pantepui region, northern South America". Salamandra (Full text). 51 (4): 283–314. Retrieved June 13, 2022.