Hyloscirtus criptico

The cryptic torrenteer (Hyloscirtus criptico) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it 2175 to 2794 meters above sea level. It lives in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes Mountains. It lives in cloud forests.[2][1][3][4]

Hyloscirtus criptico
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Species:
H. criptico
Binomial name
Hyloscirtus criptico
(Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012)
Synonyms[2]
  • Hyla criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012
  • Colomascirtus criptico Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016
  • Hyloscirtus criptico Rojas-Runjaic, Infante-Rivero, Salerno, and Meza-Joya, 2018

The adult male frog is about 60.90 - 64.88 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 60.8 - 72.0 mm long. The male frog has a dark belly and the female frog has a lighter belly. The skin of the frog's backis dark brown with small spots of white or orange. There are dark brown stripes on the legs. There is a light colored area near the rear end. The iris of the eye is gray in color.[1]

The scientists named this frog criptico or "cryptic," or "strange." This is because they at first thought the frogs they caught were Hyloscirtus larinopygion.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Diego A. Ortiz (January 26, 2013). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012". AmphibiaWeb (in español). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus criptico Coloma, Carvajal-Endara, Dueñas, Paredes-Recalde, Morales-Mite, Almeida-Reinoso, Tapia, Hutter, Toral-Contreras, and Guayasamin, 2012". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  3. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Cryptic Torrenteer: Hyloscirtus criptico". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T78965851A176498096. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T78965851A176498096.en. 78965851. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  4. Coloma LA, Carvajal-Endara S, Duenas JF, Paredes-Recalde A, Morales-Mite M, Almeida-Reinoso D, Tapia EE, Hutter CR, Toral E, Guaysamin JM (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of stream treefrogs of the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group (Anura: Hylidae) and description of two new species from Ecuador". Zootaxa (Abstract). 3364: 1–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3364.1.1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)