common Suriname toad, star-fingered toad (Pipa pipa) A Suriname toad with eggs embedded in the skin
Description
English: A female surinam toad (Pipa pipa) in the Natural History Museum of Vienna. The object was conservated in a glass filled with a special conservation liquid; because of the difficult light situation I had to edit the image strongly.
Français : Un crapaud du Surinam (femelle) (Pipa pipa) musée d'histoire naturelle de Vienne. Le spécimen est conservé dans du formol ce qui explique les importantes retouche de l’image.
Deutsch: Eine weibliche Wabenkröte (Pipa pipa) im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien. Das fotografierte Objekt befand sich in einem mit Aufbewahrungslösung gefüllten Glas, weshalb das Bild intensiv nachbearbeitet wurde.
Date 13 September 2009
Author Dein Freund der Baum https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dein_Freund_der_Baum
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surinam_toad_(DFdB).jpg
The common Suriname toad or star-fingered toad (Pipa pipa) is a species of frog in the Pipidae family found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. In Spanish it is called aparo, rana comun de celdillas, rana tablacha, sapo chinelo, sapo chola, or sapo de celdas. In Portuguese, it is known as sapo pipa due to its shape, as "pipa" means kite. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.