Osteocephalus mutabor

Osteocephalus mutabor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species:
O. mutabor
Binomial name
Osteocephalus mutabor
(Jungfer and Hödl, 2002)

Osteocephalus mutabor is a frog in the family Hylidae. It lives in Ecuador and Peru. It lives in the hills on the west side of the Andes mountains. Scientists have seen it between 250 and 1000 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is 35.6–50.3 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 52.7–75.7 mm long.

This frog is brown or green-brown in color with marks across its back. Its belly is pink, orange, or whitish. The adult male frogs have bumps on their backs.

The female frog lays 30-40 eggs at a time.

This frog lives in primary forest and near the edges of forests.

The young frogs are brown-bronze in color. Scienitsts named this frog "mutabor" for the Latin word "mutare" for "changing." This is because the young frogs change color when they become adult frogs.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron; Andrea Vallejo (August 31, 2011). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Osteocephalus mutabor". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  2. 1 2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Osteocephalus mutabor". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55799A61403867. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T55799A61403867.en. 55799. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 21, 2022.