Allobates liniaureum

The golden line nurse frog or rana nodriza de línea dorada (Allobates liniaureum) is a frog.  It lives in Peru.

Body

The adult male frog is about 14.2–14.8 mm long from nose to rear end, and the adult female frog is about 15.0 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown or cream-white in color with brown spots.  There is a light brown stripe on each side of the body. When the frog is alive, this brown stripe can shine iridescent gold in color. The tops of the front legs are yellow-gold in color. The tops of the back legs are brown or cream-white in color with brown spots. There is a dark brown stripe on each side of the body, all the way to where the back legs meet the body. There is also a smaller, lighter stripe from where the front legs meet the body to where the back legs meet the body. The belly is yellow near the front of the body and white near the rear end. The iris of the eye is gold in color with dark brown lines in it.

Name

Scientists named this frog liniaureum for the Latin words linum for "thread" or "string" and aureum for "golden." They gave the frog this name because it has a gold-colored line on each side of its body.

Home

This frog is awake during the day. Scientists have seen this frog in exactly one place: about 6 km from Yurimaguas airport, about 202 meters above sea level in Loreto.

References

Category:Frogs of South America