Osteocephalus fuscifacies

Osteocephalus fuscifacies
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species:
O. fuscifacies
Binomial name
Osteocephalus fuscifacies
(Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000)

Osteocephalus fuscifacies is a frog in the family Hylidae. It lives in Ecuador and Peru. In Ecuador, it lives near the River Napo. Scientists have seen it between 250 and 600 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is 34.7–44.2 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 57.5–51.5 mm.

The skin on the frog's back is the color of coffee. The skin on the frog's belly is the color of coffee mixed with gray, with white bumps. Some frogs have a gray or brown mark below each eye. The iris of the eye is gold in color with black marks.

This frog moves at night. The male frogs sit on bromeliad plants 7 m or more above the forest floor. The female frogs lay their eggs in water that in the bromeliad leaves. The tadpoles hatch and swim in this water. This frog almost never goes to the forest floor. It stays in the trees for most of its life.

The Latin name of this frog fuscifacies means "brown face."

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron (September 8, 2022). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Osteocephalus fuscifacies". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  2. 1 2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2019). "Rana de Casco Burlona: Osteocephalus fuscifacies". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55794A98407219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T55794A98407219.en. 55794. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Osteocephalus deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 17, 2022.