''Tepuihyla rodriguezi'', also known as the Rodriguez's Amazon treefrog is a species of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...
in the family
Hylidae
Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as " tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.
Taxonomy and ...
found in southeastern
Venezuela
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and
Guyana.
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''Tepuihyla galani'', assessed as "]near threatened
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" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
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. is now considered a junior synonym of ''Tepuihyla rodriguezi''.
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References
Tepuihyla
Amphibians of Guyana
Amphibians of Venezuela
Amphibians described in 1968
Taxa named by Juan A. Rivero
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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