Hyloscirtus hillisi

The Hyloscirtus hillisi is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.  Scientists have seen it in exactly one place, between 1991 and 2134 meters above sea level on a limestone mountain.

The adult male frog is 66.7-72.3 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 65.8 mm long.  The skin on the frog's back is dark in color with tiny yellow spots.  The skin on the frog's belly is gray in color.  The iris of the eye is yellow or bronze in color.

This frog lives in forests with many short woody plants about 1.5 m tall.  There are trees there too, about 10-15 m tall.  Scientists found tadpoles and young frogs in ponds near the river.

Name

Scientists named this frog after David M. Hillis.  Hillis studied amphibians and especially frogs in Hyloscirtus.

References

Category:Frogs of South America