Rio Chingual Valley tree frog
The Rio Chingual Valley tree frog (Hyloscirtus pantostictus) is a frog. It lives in Colombia and Ecuador on the east side of the Andes Mountains. Scientists have seen it between 1950 and 2700 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]
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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. pantostictus
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| Hyloscirtus pantostictus (Duellman and Berger, 1982)
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The adult male frog is 55.54 - 68.14 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 64.1 mm long. The skin on this frog's back is olive green in color with orange spots. The skin of the belly is white. There are orange spots on the front of the neck. The insides of the legs are black and orange in color. This frog has climbing disks on its toes. The disks are bright yellow. The iris of the eye is gray in color.[1]
People have only seen this frog in places where some trees were cut down. Scientists are not sure whether it can live if humans change the places it lives too much.[1]
This frog's scientific name comes from the Greek language word pantostiktos, for "stained."[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Luis A. Coloma; Caty Frenkel; Santiago R. Ron; Nadia Páez-Rosales (June 17, 2010). Luis A. Coloma; Santiago R. Ron (eds.). "Hyloscirtus pantostictus". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus pantostictus (Duellman and Berger, 1982)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Rio Chingual Valley Treefrog: Hyloscirtus pantostictus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55587A85902532. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T55587A85902532.en. 55587. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
