Anomaloglossus roraima

Anomaloglossus roraima
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Genus:	Anomaloglossus
Species:	A. roraima
Binomial name
Anomaloglossus roraima (La Marca, 1997)
Synonyms
Dendrobates roraima La Marca, 1997 Epipedobates roraima Walls, 1994 Allobates roraima Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 Anomaloglossus roraima Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2011

The Roraima rocket frog (Anomaloglossus roraima) is a frog. Scientists found it in Guyana and Venezuela. Scientists think it may also live in Brazil.

Body

The adult male frog is about 16.5–19.0 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult females frog is about 16.5–19.3 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is light brown in color, sometimes with darker marks. The tops of all four legs are lighter in color with small white marks, sometimes with some red color. The bottoms of the legs are darker. The front legs have dark brown stripes. The sides of the body can have darker colors. The belly is yellow or reddish in color, sometimes with dark brown marks. The ends of the toes can have blue color. The iris of the eye is brown in color on top and darker in the middle and light on the bottom.

Home

This frog lives high on the tepui flatlands. It lives in large bromeliad plants, for example Brocchinia tatei. Scientists saw the frog between 1800 and 2700 meters above sea level.

Scientists have seen this frog inside Canaima National Park.

Young

The male frog calls to the female frogs. The tadpoles swim in water in the bromeliad plants.

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out. Most of the frogs live high on the tepui flatland, but people set fires lower down that can go that high. Climate change can also hurt this frog. There is nowhere higher and colder for them to climb to if the weather becomes too hot.