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Notodelphys ovifera = Gastrotheca ovifera (pouched frog)
1. Notodelphys ovifera (Weinland) = Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein & Weinland, 1854)
Fig. 1. The pouch frog of Venezuela is remarkable for its female's possession of a paired dorsal [back] pouch, in which the eggs remain until the hatching of the tadpoles. A narrow triangular gap at the rear of the back (in the centre of the lightly coloured saddle patch) leads to the pouch.
Date 1904
Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 68: Batrachia
Author Ernst Haeckel
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHaeckel_Batrachia_%28detail_Gastrotheca_ovifera%29.jpg
The pouched frog or giant marsupial frog (Gastrotheca ovifera) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is endemic to northern Venezuela and is known from the Venezuelan Coastal Range, including Sierra de Aroa. It is associated with bromeliads where it hides, especially during dry periods. The eggs are carried on the female's back and have direct development.
Order: Anura
Family: Hemiphractidae
Genus: Gastrotheca
Species: Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854)
Synonyms
- Notodelphys ovifera Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854
- Notodelphis dorsigera Schlegel, 1858
- Hyla vogli Müller, 1938 |
