Gastrotheca piperata

Gastrotheca piperata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hemiphractidae
Genus: Gastrotheca
Species:
G. piperata
Binomial name
Gastrotheca piperata
De la Riva, 1992
Synonyms
  • Gastrotheca lauzuricae De la Riva, 1992
  • Gastrotheca piperata Duellman and Köhler, 2005
  • Gastrotheca (Gastrotheca) piperata Duellman, 2015

Gastrotheca piperata is a frog. It lives in Bolivia.

Home

This frog lives in trees in cloud forests on mountains. It is good at living in places that human beings have changed, for example places where cows live. People see the frogs on plants up to 3 m (9.8 ft) above the ground. People hear the male frogs calling from the place where tree branches come together like a roof. Scientists have seen the frog between 1,500 m (4,900 ft) and 2,800 m (9,200 ft) above sea level.

Scientists saw the frog in two protected places: Parque Nacional Carrasco and Parque Nacional Amboró.

Young

The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back, like other frogs in Gastrotheca. The female frog brings the tadpoles to puddles.

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. It is good at living in places that human beings have changed. However, the frogs could die if humans cut down all the forest to make places to raise cows. Scientists found the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on these frogs many times in the 1990s and in 2001, but because there are so many frogs alive now, scientists do not think the disease chytridiomycosis will kill all these frogs.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Gastrotheca piperata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T61825A61416072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T61825A61416072.en. Retrieved September 16, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. "Gastrotheca lauzuricae Duellman, Trueb, and Lehr, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 16, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Gastrotheca piperata Duellman, Trueb, and Lehr, 2006". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 16, 2026.
  4. 1 2 Duellman WE; Kohler J (2005). "New species of marsupial frog (Hylidae: Hemiphractinae: Gastrotheca) from the Yungas of Bolivia". J. Herpetol. (Abstract). 39: 91–100. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2005)039[0091:NSOMFH]2.0.CO;2. Retrieved September 16, 2026.