| Noblella peruviana | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Strabomantidae |
| Genus: | Noblella |
| Species: | N. peruviana |
| Binomial name | |
| Noblella peruviana (Noble, 1921) | |
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Noblella peruviana is a species offrog in the familyStrabomantidae. It isendemic to theAndean highlands in Peru.[1][3]
Noblella peruviana is thetype species of genusNoblella. The genus was erected byThomas Barbour to accommodate the species that had until then been known asSminthillus peruvianus; the only otherSminthillus species was from Cuba (now known asEleutherodactylus limbatus).[4]
However, despite its status as defining the genusNoblella,Noblella peruviana is a little known species. Itstype locality is considered to be in error; the true locality is uncertain but may be in thePuno Region.[1][3] In the literature, it has also been mixed withPleurodema marmorata from Bolivia and withPsychrophrynella usurpator from Peru.[3]
Theholotype measures 16 mm (0.63 in) in snout–vent length. The following description is from the originalspecies description byGladwyn Kingsley Noble:[2]
Snout rounded, equal to the greatest diameter of the orbit; loreal region abrupt, nearly vertical; nostril midway between the tip of the snout and the anterior corner of the eye; interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid; horizontal diameter of the tympanum about one-half, vertical diameter nearly two-thirds the greatest width of the eye; tympanum about one-half its smallest diameter from the latter. Digits pointed, no terminal disks; a well-developed tarsal and two metatarsal tubercles. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching just beyond the posterior angle of the eye; when the limbs are held vertical to the axis of the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation overlapping its mate of the opposite side. Skin feebly granular above, smooth below.
Color uniform grayish brown, slightly purplish above; a broad band of dark brown extending on each side from the nostril to the lumbar region; a narrow white line on the posterior face of each thigh joining with a median line which extends anteriorly along the back for more than half its length; posterior surfaces of the lower leg indistinctly barred with dark brown. Lower surfaces of body whitish, the chin and thigh indistinctly suffused with brown.
Reflecting the uncertainty regarding its type locality, habitat and ecology ofNoblella peruviana are unknown.[1]
