Tepuihyla tuberculosa

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Tepuihyla tuberculosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Tepuihyla
Species:
T. tuberculosa
Binomial name
Tepuihyla tuberculosa
(Boulenger, 1882)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla tuberculosa Boulenger, 1882
  • Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
  • Hypsiboas tuberculosa Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016
  • Tepuihyla tuberculosa Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016
  • Boana tuberculosa Dubois, 2017

The Canelos tree frog (Tepuihyla tuberculosa) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador and Peru Scientists have seen it between 132 and 1076 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

This frog is green in color with dark lines on its back. The adult male frog is about 82.9 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 85.7 mm.[1]

The frog's name comes from the bumps (tubercules) on the skin of the frog's back.[1]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read (September 20, 2018). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Tepuihyla tuberculosa". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Canelos Treefrog: Tepuihyla tuberculosa". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T113788406A85903420. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T113788406A85903420.en. 113788406. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Scinax strussmannae (Boulenger, 1882)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 12, 2022.