Phyllomedusa chaparroi
Phyllomedusa chaparroi is a frog that lives in Peru. Scientists have only seen it in two places.[1][2]
| Phyllomedusa chaparroi | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Phyllomedusidae |
| Genus: | Phyllomedusa |
| Species: | P. chaparroi |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllomedusa chaparroi (Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, De la Riva, and Padial, 2017) | |
The adult male frog is about 67.9 to 77.5 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog looks like Phyllomedusa camba. Scientists looked at the frogs' mitochondrial DNA to tell the two species apart.[3]
The iris of the eye is red-brown in color with tiny orange spots.[3]
References
- "Pithecopus chaparroi (Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, De la Riva, and Padial, 2017)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
- "Phyllomedusa chaparroi". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
- Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher; Jörn Köhler; Ignacio DE LA Riva; José M Padial (May 22, 2017). "A new morphologically cryptic species of Phyllomedusa (Anura: Phyllomedusidae) from Amazonian forests of northern Peru revealed by DNA sequences". Zootaxa (Abstract). 4269 (2): 245–264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4269.2.4. PMID 28610333.
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