Gastrotheca gemma

Gastrotheca gemma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hemiphractidae
Genus:	Gastrotheca
Species:	G. gemma
Binomial name
Gastrotheca gemma Venegas, García Ayachi, Echevarría, Paluh, Chávez-Arribasplata, Marchelie, and Catenazzi, 2021

Gastrotheca gemma is a frog. It lives in Peru.

Body

Scientists saw adult male frogs that were 56.9 and 59.5 mm long from nose to rear end and adult female frogs that were 69.7 and 71.8 mm. The male and female frogs had different colors: In the female frog, the sides of the body are green in color with no marks. Parts of the back legs are yellow-green with black marks. The bottoms of the back legs are yellow-green with some gray-brown color. The throat and chest are green in color. The belly is yellow-green in color and may have a big gray patch. In male frogs, the sides of the body are green in color with darker green marks. Parts of the back legs are yellow-green with thin black lines. The bottoms of the back legs are cream-brown in color. The throat and chest are yellow-green in color. In both male and female frogs, there is yellow-green color where the back legs meet the body. The iris of the eye is light blue in color with thin black lines. Some frogs have an orange ring in the eye and some do not. The belly is cream-green in color. The bottoms of the four feet are gray or gray-brown in color.

Name

Scientists named this frog gemma because that is the Latin word for "gem," and the frogs' eyes look like turquoise gems.

Home

Scientists saw the frog between 3,130 m (10,270 ft) and 3,180 m (10,430 ft) above sea level, near the top of the Cordillera de Colán.

Scientists have seen this frog in a protected place: Santuario Nacional Cordillera de Colán.

Young

The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. The young come out as small froglets, not tadpoles.

Danger

In the early 2020s, scientists tested the frogs for the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and did not find much of it. B. dendrobatidis causes the dangerous disease chytridiomycosis, which has killed many kinds of frogs.

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