Flectonotus fitzgeraldi
| Flectonotus fitzgeraldi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Flectonotus |
| Species: | F. pygmaeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Flectonotus pygmaeus (Parker, 1934) | |
Fitzgerald's marsupial frog or dwarf marsupial frog (Fritziana fitzgeraldi) is a frog. It lives in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
Body
The adult frog is 19 - 24 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is yellow-brown in color with some light brown near the rear end. There is a small stripe between the eyes. Some of these frogs have stripes on the back legs and some do not. The iris of the eye can be light bronze to gold in color and there is a red mark on each side of the pupil.
Home
This frog lives in trees in in forests. Sometimes to goes to the ground to look for food. Scientists have seen this frog between 0 m (0 ft) and 950 m (3,120 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen this frog in some protected places: Parque Nacional Peninsula de Paria.
Young
The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. She carries 3-4 eggs at a time. The eggs are about 3.6 mm across. The female frog brings the tadpoles to bromeliad plants with water in them. The tadpoles are smaller than 20 mm long. They have a yolk sac on their bodies. They do not eat any food. They grow into frogs in five days.
Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. Some of the frogs are in some danger when people change the places where the frogs live to make farms and things for visitors. Fires can also hurt the frogs. Other frogs that live in the same place have had the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on their bodies, so the disease chytridiomycosis might hurt this frog.
First paper
- Parker, H. W. (1934). "Some frogs and toads of Trinidad". Tropical Agriculture. 11. Trinidad: 123.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Fritziana fitzgeraldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T55316A109535175. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55316A109535175.en. Retrieved October 22, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Jacob Villard (June 23, 2011). James Harrison III (ed.). "Fritziana fitzgeraldi (Parker, 1934)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 22, 2026.
