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Noblella thiuni

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Noblella thiuni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Strabomantidae
Genus: Noblella
Species:
N. thiuni
Binomial name
Noblella thiuni
Catenazzi and Ttito, 2019

Noblella thiuni is a species of frog in Peru. It is 11 mm (0.43 in) in length placing it as one of the smallest amphibians in the world.[1] It lives in the leaf litter of a montane forest making it difficult to spot.[2] This minute frog has the dorsum tan with a dark brown X-shaped middorsal mark and dark brown markings, the chest and belly copper reddish with a profusion of silvery spots, the ventral surfaces of legs bright red, and the throat and palmar and plantar surfaces brown. The species was discovered in 2017 near Thiuni, in the province of Carabaya, Department of Puno, in the upper watershed of a tributary of the Inambari River, Peru, and is known only from a single specimen.

References

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  1. ^ "Tiny frog species among series of finds in Andean 'sky islands'". the Guardian. 14 December 2020.
  2. ^ Catenazzi, Alessandro; Ttito, Alex (23 April 2019). "Noblella thiuni sp. n., a new (singleton) species of minute terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the montane forest of the Amazonian Andes of Puno, Peru". PeerJ. 7: e6780. doi:10.7717/peerj.6780. PMC 6485238. PMID 31065457.