Hyloscirtus mashpi
The Mashpi stream tree frog (Hyloscirtus mashpi) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 778 and 1279 meters above sea level. It lives on the west side of the Andes Mountains. It lives in cloud forests.[2][1][3]
| Hyloscirtus mashpi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. mashpi
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| Binomial name | |
| Hyloscirtus mashpi (Guayasamin, Rivera-Correa, Arteaga-Navarro, Culebras, Bustamante, Pyron, Peñafiel, Morochz, and Hutter, 2015)
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The adult male frog is about 28.7-33.8 mm long from nose to rear end. The adult female frog is about 37.0-38.5 mm long. The skin of the adult male frog's back is light green-yellow with a brown line down the middle. The skin of the adult female frog's back is light brown with a dark brown line down the middle. The iris of the eye is brown in color with black lines in it. The webbed skin between the toes is yellow-green in color. The bones are white in color.[1][4]
Scientists named this frog after the Reserva de Biodiversidad Mashpi, where it lives.[1][4]
The scientists found many frogs in the same places. They think the frogs can resist disease.[4]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Andrea Varela-Jaramillo (January 26, 2013). Santiago Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus mashpi Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012: Mashpi Stream Treefrog; Rana torrenticola de Mashpi". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus criptico Guayasamin, Rivera-Correa, Arteaga-Navarro, Culebras, Bustamante, Pyron, Peñafiel, Morochz, and Hutter, 2015". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Hyloscirtus mashpi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T89255276A97874121. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T89255276A97874121.en. 89255276. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Juan M. Guayasamin; Mauricio Rivera-Correa; Alejandro Arteaga; Jaime Culebras; Lucas Bustamante; R. Alexander Pyron; Nicolás Peñafiel; Carlos Morochz; Carl R. Hutter (2015). "Molecular phylogeny of stream treefrogs (Hylidae: Hyloscirtus bogotensis Group), with a new species from the Andes of Ecuador" (PDF). Neotropical Biodiversity (Full text). 1 (1): 2–21. doi:10.1080/23766808.2015.1074407. S2CID 53050080. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
