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Hyloscirtus tapichalaca

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Hyloscirtus tapichalaca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Species:
H. tapichalaca
Binomial name
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca
(Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)
Synonyms[2]
  • Hyla tapichalaca Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003
  • Hyloscirtus tapichalaca Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
  • Boana tapichalaca Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005
  • Colomascirtus tapichalaca Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016

The Tapichalaca tree frog (Hyloscirtus tapichalaca) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it in one place, 2667 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]

The adult male frog is about 61.78 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 66.3-66.5 mm long. This frog is dark gray in color. The chest and throat are brown. The belly can be gray or black. Some frogs have white or gray marks on their sides. The mouth, toe disks, and rear end are white. The iris of the eye is brown in color.[1]

The male frog sits on plants about 2.5 meters above the ground when he sings for the female frogs. Scientists believe the frog's young live in streams.[1]

This frog's scientific name comes from the Tapichalaca Biological Reserve. That is where the scientists saw it.[1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Santiago R. Ron; Caty Frenkel; Nadia Páez-Rosales (September 4, 2013). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus tapichalaca (Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus tapichalaca (Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  3. Luis A. Coloma (2004). "Tapichalaca Treefrog: Hyloscirtus tapichalaca". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55672A11335750. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55672A11335750.en. 55672. Retrieved October 24, 2022.