Diasporus ventrimaculatus

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Diasporus ventrimaculatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Eleutherodactylidae
Genus: Diasporus
Species:
D. ventrimaculatus
Binomial name
Diasporus ventrimaculatus
(Chaves et al, 2009)

Diasporus ventrimaculatus is a species of dink frogs, in the genus Diasporus . It was originally described as Diasporus ventrimaculatus sp. nov. in Zootaxa in 2009. [2]

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References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.; NatureServe (2020). "Diasporus ventrimaculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T186065A54385126. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T186065A54385126.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Chaves, G.; Garcia-Rodriguez, A.; Mora, A.; Leal, A. (2009). "A new species of dink frog (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae: Diasporus) from Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica". Zootaxa. 2088 (2088): 1–14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2088.1.1. S2CID   73669536.