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Molinapampa Rocket Frog
Hyloxalus leucophaeus
Hyloxalus leucophaeus is a species of frog in the family Dendrobatidae. It is endemic to a very limited range in Peru.
From the article Hyloxalus leucophaeus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is moderately sized. The adult male frog measures about 25.2 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 26.1 mm. This frog has climbing disks on the toes of all four feet. It has a mostly moss grey body with patches of white and a more orange shade of the body colour. At stage 28, the tadpole is 15.6 mm long in body and 37.5 mm long including the tail. It has small eyes, which are located dorsolaterally such that they are not visible from below. The tadpole is dark gray in color.
Range & habitat
This species is known only from a very small range Molinopampa district in the northern Cordillera Central in the Peruvian Andes where it has been found at a height of 2,400 m above sea level.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Scientists believe that this frog lays its eggs on land, like most related species. They observed the tadpoles swimming in streams.
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 70664.