Quilticohyla acrochorda

species of amphibian

The warty mountain stream frog (Quilticohyla acrochorda) is a frog. It lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it between 594 and 900 meters above sea level on the Atlantic side (east side) of the mountains.[2][3][1]

Quilticohyla acrochorda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Quilticohyla
Species:
Q. acrochorda
Binomial name
Quilticohyla acrochorda
(Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ptychohyla acrochorda Campbell and Duellman, 2000
  • Hyla acrochorda Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005
  • Quilticohyla acrochorda Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018

This frog lives in Sierra Juarez. People have seen it next to streams in forests in the mountains. Tadpoles from this frog swim in the water all year.[3]

The adult male frog is about 36.3 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is around 57.6 mm long. When it is time to lay eggs, the males grow a gland on their chests and pads on their front feet. The male frogs have more vomerine teeth than the female frogs do. The skin of the frog's back is lime green in color. Some of them have gray or reddish marks on the back. The iris of the eye is white in color with red-brown lines. This frog has disks on its toes for climbing.[3]

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Dark-eared Bush Frog: Quilticohyla acrochorda". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T55908A53961746. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T55908A53961746.en. 55908.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Quilticohyla acrochorda (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Raul E. Diaz (June 4, 2000). Tate Tunstall (ed.). "Quilticohyla acrochorda (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 4, 2023.