Pleurodema tucumanum Parker 1927

Mai/Jun

Diagnosis A medium-sized frog, weaker than any other species of Pleurodema, distinguishable by its reddish-colored groin, spotted with enlarged dark blotches; skin smooth; fringes on sides of toes reduced.

Know in the Catamarca, Córdoba, Chaco, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán provinces of Argentina.

trepadeira

perene

aminoácidos, ácidos graxos

Semente

Adult morphology Snout-vent 40-45 mm. Males smaller than females. Body stout, rounded; head wide, with snout sharply truncate, as large as the eye diameter. Nose swollen, nostrils dorso-lateral, protruding, at the tip of snout. Internarial interval equal to the interocular distance, narrower than upper eyelid. Canthus rostralis indistinct. Maxillary teeth very weak; vomerine teeth rudimentary in two small lines between the choanae. Eye prominent, antero-laterally located. Tongue cordiform, notched and free behind. Tympanum oval, distinct, 1/2 of the eye diameter. Supratympanic ridge wenlr. Fingers fringed; rate of the finger lengths: IV-II-I-III. Subarticular, palmar and metatarsal tubercles as in Pleurodema nebulosa and P. guayapae. Toes webbed at the base, widely fringed. Tarsal fold indistinct. When hindleg is adpressed, heel reaches the tympanum; when the femurs are bent at right angles to body, the tibio-tarsal articulations hardly touch. Dorsally closely granulous; a vestigial, flat and indistinct lumbar gland present. Belly smooth; closely granular on the lower surface od the thighs. Brownish or reddish on the back, speckled with dark little points or spots; a light creamish wash in the middle of the shoulder. Transverse dark bands on limbs; ventrally shitish, immaculate. Throat speckled with brown, darker on the gular folds which cover the vocal sac of males.

AMÉRICA DO SUL

LC. Least Concern.

Pleurodema tucumanum is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It is endemic to Argentina. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.