Tepuihyla shushupe
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Tepuihyla
Species:
T. shushupe
Binomial name
Tepuihyla shushupe
Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016

Tepuihyla shushupe is a frog in the family Hylidae. Scientists know it exclusively from the site of collection: The headwaters of the rivers Ere and Campuya near the Colombia border within Peru. They collected the sample 145 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

Morphology

The adult male frog measures about 85.4 mm long in snout-vent length and the adult female frog about 85.7 mm. The iris of the eye is whitish in color with red around the outside. The skin of the dorsum is light green and the ventrum yellow-green. The skin is granular, with dark brown color on the back of each granule. Parts of the legs are whitish in color and parts are yellow-green. This frog has fringed skin on all four legs.[4]

Habitat

This frog lives in terrace habitats thick with leaf litter, many tree roots, and small swamps. When scientists caught the first holotype male, it was sitting in a hole in a tree.[4]

Etymology

The scientists named this frog shushupe after vernacular name of the snake Lachesis muta in the language of the local indigenous people. There is a common belief that the snake can sing or otherwise vocalize. The scientists consider it possible that people have been hearing the vocalizations of Tepuihyla shushupe and attributing them to the snake.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tepuihyla shushupe". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  2. 1 2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Tepuihyla shushupe". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T111351611A111351613. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T111351611A111351613.en. 111351611. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Tepuihyla shushupe Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 Santiago R Ron; Pablo J Venegas; H Mauricio Ortega-Andrade; Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia; Patricia E Salerno (November 9, 2016). "Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura, Hylidae)". ZooKeys (Full text) (630): 115–154. doi:10.3897/zookeys.630.9298. PMC 5126525. PMID 27917043.


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