| Gastrotheca turnerorum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Gastrotheca |
| Species: | G. turnerorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrotheca turnerorum Carvajal-Endara, Coloma, Morales-Mite, Guayasamin, Székely, and Duellman, 2019 | |
Turner's marsupial frog (Gastrotheca turnerorum) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador and Peru.
The adult male frog can be 50.0–55.6 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 54.0–58.2 mm. The skin of the frog's back can be brown or green in color. Parts of the legs are dark brown in color. The lines on the face have bronze dots. The line on the mouth goes to where the front legs meet the body. The sides of the body are dark brown to bronze in color with tiny cream-white dots. The belly is dark brown in color with cream-white dots. The iris of the eye is cream-yellow in color with tiny dark brown lines and a big dark brown line across the whole eye.
Scientists named this frog turnerorum for the Turner family, who worked to help the environment and living things in it.
This frog is awake at night. It lives in trees in paramo and sub-paramo. Scientists saw the frog between 2,899 m (9,511 ft) and 3,513 m (11,526 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen this frog in protected places: Parque Nacional Yacuri, Parque Nacional Podocarpusa, and Reserva Tapichalaca.
The female frog carries her eggs in a bag of skin on her back. Scientists have seen the tadpoles in ponds and lagoons.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in danger of dying out. Human beings change the places where the frogs live to make farms and places for animals. Chemicals that kill pests, too many visitors, fires, and diseases and other living things from other places, for example trout fish, can also hurt this frog.
