
Guayaco Bully Foam Frog
Engystomops guayaco
Engystomops guayaco is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, intermittent freshwater marshes, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Description
The adult male frog measures 15.45–19.38 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 16.77–20.98 mm. The skin of the dorsum can be brown or gray-brown in color. Some frogs have darker marks and some do not. The belly is cream-white in color with gray marks. The throat is gray in color. The iris of the eye is light brown in color.
Range & habitat
This frog lives in Guayas, Cotopaxi, and Los Ríos in Ecuador. It lives in dry tropical forests where the trees are 20 m or shorter with many smaller plants nearby. Within these forests, the frogs are found in places where people removed some of the vegetation. Scientists believe the frog may have evolved in open areas and then retreated to the forests because of habitat loss as humans changed Ecuador's open flooded grasslands. Scientists have seen the frog between 15 and 300 m (49 and 984 ft) above sea level.. Scientists have reported the frog in protected places: Reserva Cerro Masvale, Reserva Ecológica Andrade Jauneche, and Reserva Ecológica Manglares Churute.
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
In human culture
Scientists named the frog for the people who live in Guayaquil in Guayas Province.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 65445.