Myersiohyla liliae

Lili tree frog (Myersiohyla liliae) is a frog. It lives in Guyana. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place: Kaieteur National Park, 400 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

Myersiohyla liliae
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Myersiohyla
Species:
M. liliae
Binomial name
Myersiohyla liliae
(Kok, 2006)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hypsiboas liliae Kok, 2006
  • Boana liliae Dubois, 2017
  • Myersiohyla liliae Pinheiro, Kok, Noonan, Means, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2018

The adult male frog is 32.5-37.1 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin on the frog's back is bright green during the day. The frog can change color. The skin on its back is green-brown at night. The belly is blue. The iris of the eye is silver in color and bronze in color at night.[4]

The scientists who wrote the first paper about this frog, Philippe Kok, named it after his daughter, Lili Kok.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Myersiohyla liliae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Señaris, J.C. (2019). "Marahuaca Odorous Frog: Myersiohyla liliae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T136169A61417294. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136169A61417294.en. 136169. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Myersiohyla liliae (Kok, 2006)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Philippe J.R. Kok (2006). "A new species of Hypsiboas (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) from Kaieteur National Park, eastern edge of the Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana" (PDF). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belqique, Biol. (Full text). 76: 192. Retrieved September 13, 2022.