| Gastrotheca nicefori | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Gastrotheca |
| Species: | G. nicefori |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrotheca nicefori Gaige, 1933 | |
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Niceforo's marsupial frog (Gastrotheca nicefori) is a frog. It lives in Colombia, Venezuela, and Panama.
This frog is nocturnal and lives in trees. It mostly lives in cloud forests, but people have also seen it in dry forests. It lives in shrubs and trees with other plants growing on them. Scientists have seen the frog between 400 and 2,545 m (1,312 and 8,350 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen the frog in protected places: Sierra Nevada National Park in Venezuela, El Tamá National Park in Colombia and Venezuela, and Reserva Forestal Fortuna and Parque Nacional Darién in Panama.
This frog has young all year. The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. She can carry 26 to 50 young at a time. The eggs become small froglets and are never tadpoles.
It has direct development without free-living larval stage; females carry the eggs in a pouch on their back (Duellman and Maness 1980, Castroviejo-Fisher et al. 2015), can brood between 26 and 50 embryos, and breed throughout the year across its range
Scientists from the IUCN say the frog is not in danger of dying out. People change the places where the frog lives to make farms and places for animals. Chemicals from farms can also hurt the frog. Scientists also found the dangerous fungus Batrachocytrium dendrobatidis on some frogs, but scientists do not know if the disease chytridiomycosis kills many of these frogs.
