Boana bandeirantes

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Boana bandeirantes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Boana
Species:
B. bandeirantes
Binomial name
Boana bandeirantes
(Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)
Synonyms [1]
  • Hypsiboas bandeirantes Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013

Boana bandeirantes is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to Brazil. Scientists have seen it only over 400 meters above sea level. [1] [2]

The adult male frog measures 27.1–29.1 mm in snout-vent length and one adult female frog has been reported to be 31.2 mm long. This frog has some webbing on the forefeet and more on the hind feet. The skin of the dorsum has four light brown stripes with darker brown in between. It has some white color on its face and two dark brown dorsolateral stripes from the snout over the eye down to the groin. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Boana bandeirantes (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  2. "Boana bandeirantes". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
  3. Carlos Alberto G. Cruz; Ulisses Caramaschi (2013). "A new species of the Hypsiboas polytaenius clade from southeastern Brazil (Anura: Hylidae)". South American Journal of Herpetology (Abstract). 8 (3): 121–126. doi:10.2994/SAJH-D-13-00009.1. S2CID   84006474 . Retrieved August 6, 2022.