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Prisimantis urichi (Boettger, 1894) from the Arima Valley, Trinidad. Males call from leaves within 1.5 m of the ground. A forest species, the males show site fidelity and engage in combat with other males. Endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. Like most other members of its family it has direct development and the eggs are laid in the leaf litter or on vegetation above the ground. This frog has also been placed in the genus Eleutherodactylus. |
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An adult and juvenile Pristamantis charlottevillensis (Kaiser et al. 1996). A species endemic to northeast Tobago. This species is active during the dry season and it may sit on fungi and feed on insects drawn to the fungus. This frog has also been placed in the genus Eleutherodactylus. |
| The Squinting Prophet Frog family holds about 540 species in 16 genera. These anurans were previously considered members of the Leptodactylidae, then moved to Brachycephalidae, and are now placed in their own family by Hedges et al. (2008 Zootaxa 1735:1-182). The family is distributed from eastern Honduras southward through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and into Colombia Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and occurs throughout most of the Amazon basin of Brazil. In northern South America they are found Venezuela and the Guyanas. The name "Squinting Prophet Frog" is based upon strabo the Greek word for squinting and the Greek word for mantis (=prophet). Many of these frogs lay their eggs in terrestrial nests and the tadpoles undergo direct development. |