Phrynopus dagmarae

Phrynopus dagmarae is a species of frogs in the family Craugastoridae. It is endemic to the Andes of Peru and only known from the Pachitea and Ambo Provinces in the Huánuco Region, from near the type locality.[2][3] The specific name dagmarae honors Dagmar Schramm from Germany.[2]

Phrynopus dagmarae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Genus: Phrynopus
Species:
P. dagmarae
Binomial name
Phrynopus dagmarae
Lehr, Aguilar, and Köhler, 2002[2]

Description

The type series consists of females and juveniles; males are unknown. Adult females reach 27.3 mm (1.07 in) in snout–vent length. The head is narrow and short. The snout is short and rounded. Tympanum is absent, and the supratympanic fold is weak. The fingers and toes have no webbing nor lateral fringes; the digital tips are slightly swollen. Skin of the dorsum is tuberculate; dorsolateral folds are present. Coloration is variable; dorsal and lateral ground coloration vary in various shades of reds, browns, and greens (cinnamon, grayish horn color, pale pinkish buff, light russet vinaceous, robin rufous, brick red, brussels brown, brownish olive, and peacock green). Ventral coloration is similarly variable (hair brown, lime green, straw yellow, glaucous, sulphur yellow to spectrum orange, Pratt's rufous). Some specimens have middorsal or dorsolateral stripes.[2]

Habitat and conservation

Phrynopus dagmarae is a terrestrial frog that occurs in montane cloud forests and wet shrublands, and formerly in forested wet grassland close to the edge of forest, at elevations of 3,070–3,380 m (10,070–11,090 ft) above sea level. It is an uncommon species. Agricultural activities, especially potato cultivation, are a serious threat to it. It is not known to occur in any protected areas.[1]

References
  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. Phrynopus dagmarae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T57207A89210796. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T57207A89210796.en. Downloaded on 23 December 2018.
  2. Lehr, Edgar; Aguilar, Cesar; Köhler, Gunther (2002). "Two sympatric new species of Phrynopus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from a cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes". Journal of Herpetology. 36 (2): 208–216. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0208:TSNSOP]2.0.CO;2.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Phrynopus dagmarae Lehr, Aguilar, and Köhler, 2002". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
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