Mount Tucuche tree frog | |
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F. fitzgeraldi in Trinidad and Tobago | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hemiphractidae |
Genus: | Flectonotus |
Species: | F. fitzgeraldi
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Binomial name | |
Flectonotus fitzgeraldi (
Parker, 1933)
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Synonyms | |
Gastrotheca fitzgeraldi Parker, 1934 |
The Mount Tucuche tree frog (Flectonotus fitzgeraldi) is a species of tree frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Paria Peninsula, Venezuela. [2] It is an arboreal species occurring in various microhabitats of humid montane forest: leaf bases of bromeliads and aroids, bushes. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] Furthermore, they are also listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List. [3]
This species is named after Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald who worked on Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s.
The male and female frogs are smaller than the pygmaeus' 'species by approximately 25.7% and 26.6%. [4]
Mount Tucuche tree frog | |
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F. fitzgeraldi in Trinidad and Tobago | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hemiphractidae |
Genus: | Flectonotus |
Species: | F. fitzgeraldi
|
Binomial name | |
Flectonotus fitzgeraldi (
Parker, 1933)
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Synonyms | |
Gastrotheca fitzgeraldi Parker, 1934 |
The Mount Tucuche tree frog (Flectonotus fitzgeraldi) is a species of tree frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Paria Peninsula, Venezuela. [2] It is an arboreal species occurring in various microhabitats of humid montane forest: leaf bases of bromeliads and aroids, bushes. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1] Furthermore, they are also listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List. [3]
This species is named after Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald who worked on Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s.
The male and female frogs are smaller than the pygmaeus' 'species by approximately 25.7% and 26.6%. [4]