Liurana vallecula
The valley papilla-tongued frog (Liurana vallecula) is a frog. It lives in Tibet. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place. Scientists have seen it 550 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]
| Liurana vallecula | |
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| Conservation status | |
DD (IUCN3.1Q)[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Genus: | Liurana |
| Species: | L. vallecula
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| Binomial name | |
| Liurana vallecula (Jiang, Wang, Wang, Li, and Che, 2019)
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Appearance
The adult frog is 14.6 to 20.4 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is red-brown in color. This frog has a white belly with dark spots and other marks. This frog has dark stripes across its legs. It has no webbed skin on any of its feet.[4]
Threats
This frog lives in Medog County, where human beings have changed the land. Scientists say this frog is in danger because the places it lives change too much.[4]
Name
Scientists named this frog vallecula in Latin for "lives in a valley." They named it He Gu She Tu Wa in Chinese and valley papilla-tongued frog in English.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Alpine Papilla-tongued Frog: Liurana vallecula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T149685795A149685854. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T149685795A149685854.en. S2CID 241681349. 149685795. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Liurana alpina Jiang, Wang, Wang, Li, and Che, 2019". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ " Liurana alpina: Jiang, Wang, Wang, Li, & Che, 2019". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ke Jiang; Kai Wang; Yu-Fan Wang; Cheng Li; Jing Che (May 18, 2019). "A new species of the endemic Himalayan genus Liurana (Anura, Ceratobatrachidae) from southeastern Tibet, China, with comments on the distribution, reproductive biology, and conservation of the genus". Zoological Research (full text). 40 (3): 175–184. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2019.025. PMC 6591166. PMID 30936414.