Allobates caldwellae
| Allobates caldwellae | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Genus: | Allobates |
| Species: | A. caldwellae
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| Binomial name | |
| Allobates caldwellae Lima, Ferrão, and Silva, 2020
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Allobates caldwellae is a frog. It lives in Brazil.[1][2][3]
Body[change]
The adult male frog is 14.4 - 16.9 mm from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 16.6 - 16.9 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is light brown in color with darker spots. The adult male frog has a yellow-gold throat and vocal sac. There is a dark stripe that starts at the eye and goes down the body. There is a darker brown stripe just underneath each one. There is a also a broken bright-white stripe from the ear to the middle of the body. The tops of the front legs are orange-brown and the tops of the back legs are brown with dark spots. The adult female frog has yellow color on the bottoms of her legs and the adult male frog's skin is clear. There is a moon-shaped mark near the rear end.[2]
Young froglets are brown in color with light brown stripes.[2]
Name[change]
Scientists named this frog for Dr. Janalee P. Caldwell, who worked at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Caldwell taught one of the scientists who found the frog, Dr. Lima.[2]
Home[change]
This frog lives in dense rainy forests. Scientists saw the frog 50 meters above sea level.[2]
Young[change]
The male frog sits on folded or overlapping leaves on the forest floor and calls to the female frogs. The female frog lays eggs in a gel nest. After the eggs hatch, the male frogs carry the tadpoles to water.[2]
At one point in the tadpole's life the tadpole is 6.5 - 7.0 mm long without the tail and 21.5 - 22.5 mm long with the tail. The tadpole is brown in color.[2]
Danger[change]
Scientists do not know if this frog is in danger of dying out. People change the places where the frog lives, especially by cutting down trees to get wood to build with.[2]
References[change]
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Allobates caldwellae Lima, Ferrão, and Silva, 2020". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 12, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Justin James; Ann T. Chang (February 10, 2025). Ann T. Chang (ed.). "Allobates caldwellae Lima, Ferrão, & Silva, 2020". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 12, 2025.
- ↑ Lima AP; Ferrão M; DH da Silva (2020). "Not as widespread as thought: Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic diversity in the Amazonian nurse frog Allobates tinae Melo-Sampaio, Oliveira and Prates, 2018 and description of a new species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research (Abstract). 58: 1173–1194. doi:10.1111/jzs.12406. Retrieved February 12, 2025.
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