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Gold-striped Frog

Lithodytes lineatus

Description:

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

Habitat:

This frog was found @22:00) along the edge of a slab of concrete in the jungles of Southeastern Ecuador (700 masl).

Notes:

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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Tukup
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Tukup

Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

Spotted on Feb 2, 2019
Submitted on Feb 5, 2019

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