Nyctimantis pomba

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Nyctimantis pomba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Nyctimantis
Species:
N. pomba
Binomial name
Nyctimantis pomba
(Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aparasphenodon pomba Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013

Nyctimantis pomba is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to Brazil. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place, 233 meters above sea level in the rainforest in Minas Gerais.[1][2][3]

The adult male frog measures 51.6–60.5 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 58.7–62.1 mm. The skin of the dorsum and limbs is dark brown with cream-colored reticulation marks. There are cream-colored spots on the ventrum, and the lips are white. There is a cream-colored stripe extending from the snout over eac eye to the axilla. The iris of the eye is red in color. The specific epithet references the discovery location near the Pomba River.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Nyctimantis pomba (Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
  2. ^ "Aparasphenodon pomba". Amphibiaweb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Assis, Clodoaldo Lopes de; Santana, Diego José; Silva, Fabiano Aguiar da; Quintela, Fernando Marques; Feio, Renato Neves (2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3716: 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793 – via ResearchGate.