Dyscophus guineti

Dyscophus guineti, the false tomato frog or the Sambava tomato frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Dyscophus guineti
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Dyscophus
Species:
D. guineti
Binomial name
Dyscophus guineti
(Grandidier, 1875)
Range in brown

Description, The Dyscophus guineti male frogs are yellowish, and in size 60-65mm. The female frogs are red- orange often with many small reticulations, in size 90-95mm. Some of these frogs have an Odontoma which are tumors from a tooth that also contain tissue. These cause bad tooth eruption and displacement of erupted teeth.[3]

References
  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2016). "Dyscophus guineti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T57805A84178457. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T57805A84178457.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. LaDouceur, Elise E. B.; Hauck, Amanda M.; Garner, Michael M.; Cartoceti, Andrew N.; Murphy, Brian G. (2019-09-24). "Odontomas in Frogs". Veterinary Pathology. 57 (1): 147–150. doi:10.1177/0300985819877633. ISSN 0300-9858.

Sources
  • AmeyZoo: Frogs that are commonly kept as pets
  • Giulia Tessa, Fabio M. Guarino, Jasmin E. Randrianirina & Franco Andreone (2011) Age structure in the false tomato frog Dyscophus guineti from eastern Madagascar compared to the closely related D. antongilii (Anura, Microhylidae), African Journal of Herpetology, 60:1, 84–88, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2011.561881.


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