Hyloxalus peculiaris

Hyloxalus peculiaris is a species of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae. It is endemic to Ecuador where it is only known from its type locality, "Pailas" in the Morona-Santiago Province, on the eastern slope of the Andes.[2] Its natural habitats are cloud forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, and the forest at the type locality was already fragmented in 1996.[1]

Hyloxalus peculiaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Hyloxalus
Species:
H. peculiaris
Binomial name
Hyloxalus peculiaris
(Rivero, 1991)
Synonyms

Colostethus peculiaris (Rivero, 1991)

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Hyloxalus peculiaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T55129A98646082. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Hyloxalus peculiaris (Rivero, 1991)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 April 2015.


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