Fritziana ulei
| Fritziana ulei | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Fritziana |
| Species: | F. ulei |
| Binomial name | |
| Fritziana ulei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926) | |
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Body
The adult male frog measures 19.2-26.9 mm from nose to rear end and the adult female frog 20.3-21 mm. It has long, strong front legs. The skin of the frog's back can be all brown or brown and green. There can be bronze color on the end of the nose or on the ends of the legs. There is a pattern of bronze color between the eyes and on the eyelid. In some frogs, it goes all the way to the ear. There is a dark brown line around it. Another dark brown line goes from the eye to just past where the front legs meet the body. The belly is light brown in color. Most of the legs are light brown with darker brown spots. The tops of the disks on the front toes are almost black in color. The iris of the eye can be light brown, green, or red in color.
Home
People see this frog in bromeliad plants. People have seen it sitting on plants 150 cm (59 in) to 250 cm (98 in) above the ground. Scientists saw the frog between 0 m (0 ft) and 2,200 m (7,200 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen this frog in some protected places and there are more in the places where the frog lives: Parque Nacional da Serra da Bocaina, Área de Proteção Ambiental de Macae de Cima, and Area Natural Tombada Serra do Mar e de Paranapiacaba.
Young
The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. She brings the tadpoles to bromeliad plants with water in them. Because each tadpole has a big yolk sac, scientists think the tadpoles don't eat before they become frogs.
Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. What threat it faces comes from changes to the places where the frogs live, loss of the Atlantic forest.
First paper
- Miranda-Ribeiro, A. de. (1926). ""Notas para servirem ao estudo dos Gymnobatrachios (Anura) Brasileiros."". Arquivos do Museu Nacional. 27. Rio de Janeiro: 1–227.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Serra de Macae Treefrog: Fritziana ulei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023 e.T79697501A86254579. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T79697501A86254579.en. Retrieved October 15, 2026.
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Fritziana ulei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 15, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Giulia B. de Gennaro (March 13, 2019). Ann T. Chang (ed.). "Fritziana ulei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 15, 2026.
