Scinax ruberoculatus
The red-eyed snouted tree frog (Scinax ruberoculatus) is a frog. It lives in forests in Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana.[1][2]
| Scinax ruberoculatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Scinax |
| Species: | S. ruberoculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Scinax ruberoculatus (Ferrão, Moravec, Kaefer, Fraga, and Lima, 2018)
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The red-eyed snouted tree frog is smaller than other frogs in Scinax. The adult male frog is 22.6–25.9 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 25.4–27.5 mm long. This frog is light gray or light brown in color, with a dark spot on its head. The scientists wrote that this spot looked like a human back tooth or like a moth to them. There is an off-white stripe on each side of the body. The upper half of the iris of the eye is red in color and the bottom half of the iris is gray in color. The belly is whitish.[3]
The tadpole is about 22.2 mm long, with the tail. The body is bronze in color with darker brown spots. Young frogs are gray with darker spots. The irises of their eyes are red all around with black color around the iris.[3]
The name ruberoculatus comes from the Latin words ruber for "red" and oculatus for "having eyes."[3]
References
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Scinax ruberoculatus Ferrão, Moravec, Kaefer, Fraga, and Lima, 2018". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ↑ "Scinax ruberoculatus". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Miquéias Ferrão; Rafael de Fraga; Jiří Moravec; Igor L. Kaefer; Albertina P. Lima (February 9, 2018). "A new species of Amazonian snouted treefrog (Hylidae: Scinax) with description of a novel species-habitat association for an aquatic breeding frog". PeerJ (Full text). 6: e4321. doi:10.7717/peerj.4321. PMC 5808318. PMID 29441233. Retrieved June 11, 2022.