Yellow-dyed rain frog

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Yellow-dyed rain frog
Four specimens of Diasporus citrinobapheus from four different localities

Four specimens of Diasporus citrinobapheus from four different localities

Systematics
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Superfamily : Brachycephaloidea
Family : Eleutherodactylidae
Subfamily : Eleutherodactylinae
Genre : Diasporus
Type : Yellow-dyed rain frog
Scientific name
Diasporus citrinobapheus
Hertz , Hauenschild , Lotzkat & Köhler , 2012

The yellow dye rain frog ( Diasporus citrinobapheus ) is a frog that was discovered in the Central American Central Cordillera of western Panama . It was first described in 2012. The name citrinobapheus is derived from the Greek citrinos citrin - yellow and bapheus color . The name should indicate that the yellow body color rubs off when you touch the frog.

features

The males of the yellow-colored rain frog reach a head-trunk length of 17.3 to 19.7 mm, the only measured female was 21.8 mm long. The head is almost as wide as it is long, but comparatively wide in relation to the head-trunk length. The tympanum , the membrane of the hearing organ, is covered by skin, but the outline is clearly visible. The teeth of the ploughshare (vomer) are poorly developed. The finger and toe discs are slightly enlarged and mostly triangular, the subarticular tubercles rounded, very flat and almost invisible.

All specimens examined showed dorsal shades of light yellow and orange, some with dark gray and / or whitish-grayish spots. Ventrally , the species is almost colorlessly transparent except for the yellow skin over the individual throat and vocal sac of the male. The interorbital (between the eyes) stripe of the female was chamois-colored , that of a male was raw umber , formed by a very fine mottling. On the upper side, the skin is smooth with isolated, low pustules; on the abdomen, it is roughly areolated.

distribution

The yellow-colored rain frog was collected on the Caribbean slopes of the western Serranía de Tabasará and on both the Pacific and Caribbean slopes of the eastern Serranía de Tabasará at an average altitude of 680 to 790 m.

Way of life and habitat

The males call, difficult to see, from very dense vegetation. Your call activity peaks at nightfall and ends when night falls. During the calls, they sit on the ground up to three meters high, on the top or bottom of a leaf. The only female specimen was found that day, around 3 p.m., in a still rolled up young banana leaf, which apparently served as a daytime hiding place. The species seems to be native not only in ancient forests, but also in secondary forests and plantations. She seems to avoid open habitats such as pastureland.

literature

  • Andreas Hertz, Frank Hauenschild, Sebastian Lotzkat, Gunther Koehler. A new golden frog species of the genus Diasporus (Amphibia, Eleutherodactylidae) from the Cordillera Central, western Panama. ZooKeys, 2012; 196 (0): 23 doi : 10.3897 / zookeys.196.2774

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Communication from the Senckenberg Society
  2. ↑ a b c d e Andreas Hertz, Frank Hauenschild, Sebastian Lotzkat, Gunther Köhler: A new golden frog species of the genus Diasporus (Amphibia, Eleutherodactylidae) from the Cordillera Central, western Panama. ZooKeys, 2012; 196 (0): 23 doi : 10.3897 / zookeys.196.2774
  3. ^ Diasporus citrinobapheus . Species ID. Retrieved June 1, 2012.

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