Hyloscirtus tigrinus
The Hyloscirtus tigrinus is a frog. It lives in Ecuador and Colombia. Scientists have seen it between 2620 and 3467 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. tigrinus
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| Hyloscirtus tigrinus (Mueses-Cisneros and Anganoy-Criollo, 2008)
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The adult male frog is about 54.2-60.7 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 62.9–63.2 mm long. The skin of the frog's head, back, and legs is yellow-green with black stripes or bars. The bars go underneath the body too. There are also orange spots on some parts of the body. The bottoms of the feet can be gray in color. The iris of the eye is gray with black marks. Parts of the climbing disks on its toes are black.[1]
This frog lives in forests high in the Andes Mountains. Scientists found them in plants near streams and ponds. These frogs sit on plants .5 m above the ground.[1]
The scientific name for this frog comes from the word "tiger." The first frogs the scientists found had stripes like tigers.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Hyloscirtus tigrinus (Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus tigrinus Mueses-Cisneros and Anganoy-Criollo, 2008". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2016). "Hyloscirtus tigrinus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T158615A136514530. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T158615A779423.en. 158615. Retrieved October 25, 2022.