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
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Species:
H. mashpi
Binomial name
Hyloscirtus mashpi
(Guayasamin, Rivera-Correa, Arteaga-Navarro, Culebras, Bustamante, Pyron, Peñafiel, Morochz, and Hutter, 2015)

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

  1. 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 español). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 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.