Ectopoglossus isthminus

species of amphibian

Ectopoglossus isthminus is a frog. It lives in Panama.[2][3][1][4]

Ectopoglossus isthminus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Ectopoglossus
Species:
E. isthminus
Binomial name
Ectopoglossus isthminus
(Myers, Ibáñez, Grant, and Jaramillo, 2012)
Synonyms[2]
  • Anomaloglossus isthminus Myers, Ibáñez D., Grant, and Jaramillo, 2012
  • Ectopoglossus isthminus Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017

Scientists caught a few frogs before 2012. The adult male frogs were 19–21 mm long from nose to rear end and one adult female frog was 23 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown in color with darker brown patterns. There are small, light yellow spots in the places where the four legs meet the body. The belly is light blue in color with some dark color.[4]

The scientists named the frog isthminus because it lives on the isthmus of Panama.[4] An isthmus is a piece of land that connects two other pieces of land. Panama connects North American with South America.

This frog lives in near streams in forests in the Chargas area in Panama. Scientists saw the frog between 150 and 810 meters above sea level.[2][1]

Most of these frogs live in one protected park: Chagres National Park.[1]

Danger

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Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out. Scientists think that the fungal disease chytridiomycosis may have killed many of these frogs, but they have not tested the frog for the fungus yet.[1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2019). "Ectopoglossus isthminus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T50924731A50924746. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T50924731A50924746.en. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frost, Darrel R. "Ectopoglossus isthminus (Myers, Ibáñez, Grant, and Jaramillo, 2012)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  3. "Ectopoglossus isthminus (Myers, Ibáñez, Grant, & Jaramillo, 2012)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Myers CW; Ibanez D R; Grant T; Jaramillo CA (2012). "Discovery of the frog genus Anomaloglossus in Panama, with descriptions of two new species from the Chagres Highlands (Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae)". Amer Mus Novit (Full text). 3763: 1–19. Retrieved November 11, 2024.