Boana bandeirantes

species of amphibian

Boana bandeirantes is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have seen it higher than 400 meters above sea level.[1][2]

Boana bandeirantes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Boana
Species:
B. bandeirantes
Binomial name
Boana bandeirantes
(Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hypsiboas bandeirantes (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)
  • Boana bandeirantes (Dubois, 2017)

The adult male frog is 27.1–29.1 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female frog was 31.2 mm long. It has a little webbing on its front feet and more on its back feet. The skin of its back has four light brown stripes with darker brown in between. It has some white color on its face and two dark brown stripes from its nose over the eye down to where the legs meet the body.[3]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Boana bandeirantes (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  2. "Boana bandeirantes". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  3. Carlos Alberto G. Cruz; Ulisses Caramaschi (2013). "A new species of the Hypsiboas polytaenius clade from southeastern Brazil (Anura: Hylidae)". South American Journal of Herpetoly (Abstract). 8 (3): 121–126. doi:10.2994/SAJH-D-13-00009.1. S2CID 84006474. Retrieved August 6, 2022.