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Lithodytes lineatus
This is a small (3-4 cm) dark black frog with a yellow stripe beginning at the tip of the nose and going down each side of the dorsum to the flank. The flank has a bright red splotch (barely seen here but large when leg is outstretched) and the legs have yellowish bars. The ventral is blue-gray colored with very small white or yellow spots
This frog was found @22:00) along the edge of a slab of concrete in the jungles of Southeastern Ecuador (700 masl).
These are one of the most common frogs in the Amazon rainforest of SE Ecuador. Drab looking in the day, the yellow and red really shows up under a headlamp.
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