painted antnest frog (Lithodytes lineatus) Description
Hylodes lineatus (Schneider) = Lithodytes lineatus / Leptodactylus lineatus (Schneider, 1799)
English translation of original description:
The military frog of Surinam is very peculiar in that the female carries its young on its back in military rank. The little tadpoles, numbering 12 to 20, attach to two diverging back ridges of the mother (that run symmetrically either side of the dorsal central line) by their oral suction plates. The mobile rudder tails are turned outward, on the left side as on the right.
Date
Original work: 1904
Derivative work: 2006-06-12 01:22
Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 68: Batrachia (http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/high/Tafel_068_300.html)
Author Original work: Ernst Haeckel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel, Derivative work: Pengo (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pengo)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_Batrachia_L_lineatus.jpg
The painted antnest frog (Lithodytes lineatus) (Spanish: sapito listado) is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Lithodytes, although it has also been included in Leptodactylus. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and possibly Trinidad and Tobago.