Ranitomeya defleri

Ranitomeya defleri is a frog.  It lives in Colombia and Brazil.

Body
The adult male frog is 15.3-17.7 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is black with big yellow marks behind the eyes. There are other yellow marks on the head and a yellow-green stripe on the backbone. There is a yellow mark in the shape of an hourglass under the chin. The belly and all four legs are black with dark blue marks.

Name

Scientists named this frog for Dr. Thomas Defler, an ape and monkey scientist who worked in Colombia and started Estación Biológica Caparú where scientists can work.

Home
This frog lives in wet forests that have never been cut down and are not too high up in the hills. People usually find the frog near water that moves. This frog can live in trees. People have seen this frog 68 meters above sea level and 98 meters above sea level.

Young
The male frog sits at the bottom of a tree or on a bromeliad plant high in the branches calls to the female frogs. His voice sounds like a buzz. Scientists have seen tadpoles swimming in pools of water in the bromeliad plants.

Danger
Scientists believe this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in a large place.

One of the places this frog lives is a protected park: Parque Nacional Natural Yaigojei Apoporis.

First paper

References

Category:Frogs of South America