Atlantihyla melissa
Atlantihyla melissa is a frog. It lives in Honduras. Scientists have seen it between 780 and 1680 meters above sea level in the Cordillera Nombre de Dios mountains. This place is in a park called Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texiguat.[2][3][1][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Atlantihyla |
| Species: | A. melissa
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| Binomial name | |
| Atlantihyla melissa (Brown and Alcala, 1974)
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Appearance
changeThe adult male frog is 30.4 - 38.8 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 30.9 - 43.9 mm long.[3]
This frog can be many colors. Some frogs have spots and some do not. Most frogs have a stripe down the sides of their bodies, which can be light or bright yellow. Adult male frogs look different from adult female frogs. Adult male frogs can have pink eyes or red eyes. Adult female frogs have green eyes or brown eyes.[3]
Home
changeThese frogs live near streams and rivers where the water moves fast and the bottom of the river is covered in rocks. People have seen these frogs sitting on plants that hang over the water. Because the adult frogs hide, scientists have heard the male frogs even when they have not seen them.[3]
Tadpoles
changeThe tadpole can grow to be 47.1 mm long before becoming a frog. The tadpole has a large mouth disk on the bottom of its body. The young frogs climb out of the water in July or July.[3]
Threats
changeThis frog only lives in one place. Because human beings cut down trees and build things in that place, this frog is in danger of dying out.[3]
Name
changeScientists named this frog for Isis Melissa Medina-Flores. Medina-Flores is a life scientist. She helped study this frog and other frogs nearby. In 2016, she disappeared in the mountains.[3][4]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Atlantihyla melissa". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T195588568A195588745. 195588568. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Atlantihyla melissa (Townsend, Herrera-B., Hofmann, Luque-Montes, Ross, Dudek, Krygeris, Duchamp, and Wilson, 2020)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Alexandra G. Marcin (December 17, 2022). "Atlantihyla melissa (Brown and Alcala, 1974)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Townsend JH; Herrera-B LA; Hofmann, EP; Luque-Montess IR; Ross AN; Dudek Jr.; Krygeris C; Duchamp JE; Wilson DL (2020). "A critically endangered new species of polymorphic stream frog (Anura: Hylidae: Atlantihyla) from the montane rainforest of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texiguat, Honduras". Vertebrate Zoology (full text). 70 (4): 731–756. doi:10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-12. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
