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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Hyloxalus |
| Species: | H. peculiaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Hyloxalus peculiaris (Rivero, 1991)
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| Synonyms | |
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Colostethus peculiaris (Rivero, 1991) | |
References edit
- ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Hyloxalus peculiaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T55129A98646082. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ 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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