User:Nate1256/Pithecopus ayeaye

Description:

P. ayeaye is a medium-sized frog that can grow between 28.7 mm to 40 mm long and weigh from 1.89 g to 7.5 g. The dorsal side is a bright green color, and the sides of its body and appendages have a distinctive network of black lines with circular reddish to orange spots. The ventral side is a black to gray color.

Distribution:

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Habitat:

It is native to South America and lives in the Espinhaco, Mantiqueira, and Canastra mountain ranges located in Brazil.

Call:

Male frogs produce multiple calls that for specific information or one call that conveys different information. The advertisement call is used to get the attention of females and warn other males who are nearby. The release call is used to when males try to mate with other males or when they are fighting.

Reproduction:

The breeding season is from October to January. Males sit on vegetation beside a stream and call to females. Most P. ayeaye breed on nights with sufficient rainfall to increase the likelihood that fertilization will occur. The tadpoles hatch during November to December. They mature from October to May, and fully mature by June. Female P. ayeaye prefer to deposit their eggs on plants in the Melastomataceae and Solanaceae family. The leaves of those plants have trichomes on them which keep the eggs from drying out and adhering to the leaf.

Conservation Status:

The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the reticulated leaf frog as critically endangered. However, the last assessment of the species was done on January 7, 2009. Since then, P. ayeaye was found in other locations in Brazil and is no longer declared critically endangered by the Brizilian List of Endangered Species in 2014.