Tepuihyla shushupe
| Tepuihyla shushupe | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Tepuihyla |
| Species: | T. shushupe
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| Binomial name | |
| Tepuihyla shushupe (Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016)
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Tepuihyla shushupe is a frog. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place: high up in the rivers Ere and Campuya. This is in Peru but near Colombia. They saw it 145 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]
Appearance[change | change source]
The adult male frog is about 85.4 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 85.7 mm long. The iris of the eye is whitish in color with red around the outside. The scientists looked at living frogs. They saw they were light green in color on the back and yellow-green on the belly. This frog has bumps on its skin. There is dark brown color on the back of each bump. Parts of the legs are whitish in color and parts are yellow-green. This frog has extra skin on the sides of all four legs.[4]
Home[change | change source]
This frog lives on high places where the ground is flat There are many dead leaves on the ground, many tree roots, and small wet places nearby. When scientists caught the first frog to examine, it was sitting in a hole in a tree.[4]
Name[change | change source]
The scientists named this frog shushupe because that is like the name of a snake in the language spoken by the humans who live nearby. This snake's scientific name is Lachesis muta. Stories say that this snake can sing. Lachesis muta lives in the same places as Tepuihyla shushupe. Scientists think people heard the frog sing and thought it was the snake singing.[4]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tepuihyla shushupe". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Tepuihyla shushupe". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T111351611A111351613. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T111351611A111351613.en. 111351611. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Tepuihyla shushupe Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Santiago R. Ron; Pablo J Venegas; H Mauricio Ortega-Andrade; Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia; Patricia E Salerno (November 9, 2016). "Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura, Hylidae)". ZooKeys (Full text) (630): 115–154. doi:10.3897/zookeys.630.9298. PMC 5126525. PMID 27917043.
