| Gastrotheca recava | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Gastrotheca |
| Species: | G. recava |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrotheca recava Teixeira, Vechio, Recoder, Carnaval, Strangas, Damasceno, Sena, and Rodrigues, 2012 | |
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The adult male frog is 57.08–75.41 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 67.21–84.92 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is light brown in color with brown marks pointing toward the head. There is a thin brown line between the eyes. There are brown lines from the nostril to each eye all the way to the ear. There is a red-brown line from the head that fades as it gets to the end of the body. There is a white line from over the mouth to where the back legs meet the body. The tops of the four legs have dark brown lines going across. The skin inside the back legs has darker marks.
Scientists named this frog recava because that is the Latin word for "arched inward." The frog's skull bones go inward in an arch shape.
The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. The young come out as froglets about 0.8 g (0.028 oz) in size.
This frog lives in forests that have never been cut down and forests that are growing back where the branches come together like a roof. People see the frog sitting on branches 10 cm (3.9 in) to 5 m (16 ft) above the ground. It is not good at living in places that are not forests, but it can live on farms that have many trees on them. Scientists have seen the frog between 0 m (0 ft) and 530 m (1,740 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen the frog in protected places.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. There is still a large forest in Bahia where the frog lives. When people do change the forest into farms, they usually make cabrucas. These are cacao farms with trees on them to make shade. The frogs can live on these trees. When people do change the frog's home, it is to make farms, make places to grow animals, and make small tree farms.
