Puerto Cabello Tree Frog

About the Puerto Cabello Tree Frog

Flectonotus pygmaeus (also known as: Puerto Cabello treefrog, Spanish: ranita marsupial pigmea) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is found in mountainous regions of northwest Venezuela and northeast Colombia.

The first description of the species was published by Oskar Boettger in 1893, under the name Nototrema pygmaeum. Already in 1926 did Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro suggest the name Flectonotus pygmaeus, but it wasn't until 1966, after a few decades of the genus names and classifications of the species and its close relatives being shuffled, that Werner C.A. Bokermann would publish the modern the name Flectonotus pygmaeus with Flectonotus referring to a genus containing F.pygmaeus and F.fitzgeraldi.

F.pygmaeus snout–vent length is typically in the range of 22–24.2 mm (0.87–0.95 in) for males and 27.4–30.6 mm (1.08–1.20 in) for females, about 34.6% and 36.2% larger, respectively, than the typical snout–vent lengths of Flectonotus fitzgeraldi. F. pygmaeus have smooth tarsi and backs, and usually have a rounded snout.

F. pygmaeus is found on the Mérida Andes and Venezuelan Coastal Range in Venezuela and... Wikipedia →