Colostethus jacobuspetersi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Colostethus |
| Species: | C. jacobuspetersi
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| Binomial name | |
| Colostethus jacobuspetersi Rivero, 1991
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The Quito rocket frog or waterfall rocket frog (Colostethus jacobuspetersi) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador.[2][3][1]
Name
Scientists named this frog for amphibian scientist and explorer James Peters, of the Smithsonian Museum.[3]
Home
This frog lives in forests high in hills and mountains. People have seen them next to canals and other water places that human beings have made. Scientists saw the frog between 1500 and 3800 meters above sea level.[2][1]
Scientists are sure they saw the frog in 1990 in Cashca Totoras Protective Forest. They think the frog lives or used to live in some of these protected parks: Reserva Ecológica Los Illinizas, Reserva Geobotánica Pululahua, and Reserva de Producción Faunística Chimborazo.[1]
Young
The female frog lays eggs on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the male frog carries the tadpoles to streams, where they swim and grow.[3][1]
Danger
Scientists are sure they saw the frog in 1990 in Cashca Totoras Protective Forest. In 2019, some scientists heard the frog singing and saw tadpoles and young frogs.[1]
Scientists say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. Humans cut down the forests to make farms and to make places for people to live. There is no forest at all where the frog used to live. The fungal disease chytridiomycosis may also have killed many frogs, but scientists are not sure.[1]
In 2015, the volcano Volcan Cotopaxi started throwing fire and hot rocks again. This could kill the frog too.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Mertens' Rocket Frog: Colostethus jacobuspetersi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T55098A98645332. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55098A98645332.en. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frost, Darrel R. "Colostethus mertensi Rivero, 1991". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Caty Frenkel; Diego A. Ortiz; Luis A. Coloma; Santiago R. Ron (June 25, 2012). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Hyloxalus jacobuspetersi Rivero, 1991". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
