Oreobates quixensis

Oreobates quixensis (common name: common big-headed frog) is a frog species in the family Craugastoridae. It is found in the upper Amazon Basin in Bolivia, western Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2] It is a very common terrestrial frog of primary and secondary tropical moist forest, also to be found in clearings, open areas and banana groves.[1]

Oreobates quixensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Genus: Oreobates
Species:
O. quixensis
Binomial name
Oreobates quixensis
Synonyms

Ischnocnema quixensis (Jiménez de la Espada, 1872)
Leptodactylus tuberculosus Andersson, 1945

Description

Oreobates quixensis are large among the Oreobates with adults measuring 35–63 mm (1.4–2.5 in) in snout–vent length. The head is large and wider than long; the snout is short. The dorsum is pale brown to dark brown with purple tonalities and cream flecks; the skin is granular, with round keratinized granules and small, sparse, prominent, and enlarged warts.[3]

Breeding is by direct development. Gravid females contain 15–51 eggs.[1]

References

  1. Luis A. Coloma; Santiago Ron; Claudia Azevedo-Ramos; Ariadne Angulo; Fernando Castro; Jose Vicente Rueda (2004). "Oreobates quixensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T57105A11579455. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T57105A11579455.en.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. Padial, José M.; Chaparro, Juan C.; De La Riva, Ignacio (2008). "Systematics of Oreobates and the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Amphibia, Anura), based on two mitochondrial DNA genes and external morphology". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152 (4): 737–773. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00372.x.
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