Nyctimantis pomba

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 (Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021)

Nyctimantis pomba is a frog that lives in 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 is 51.6-60.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 58.7-62.1 mm long. The skin of the back and legs is dark brown with almost white marks. There are white spots on the belly. The mouth is white. There is an almost white stripe from the nose over the eye to the front legs. The iris of the eye is red in color.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Clodoaldo Lopes De Assis; Diego José Santana; Fabiano Aguiar Da Silva; Fernando Marques Quintela; Renato Neves Feio (2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Mirand-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa (Abstract). 3716: 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793.