Leptopelis crystallinoron

Leptopelis crystallinoron
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Arthroleptidae
Genus:	Leptopelis
Species:	L. crystallinoron
Binomial name
Leptopelis crystallinoron Lötters [fr], Rödel [fr], and Burger, 2005[2]

Leptopelis crystallinoron is a species of

The only known specimen (holotype) is an adult female measuring 57 mm (2.2 in) in snout–vent length. The body is robust. The snout is truncate in dorsal view and rounded laterally. No tympanum is present. Skin is granular throughout. All fingers and toes bear discs, have lateral fringes, and are webbed (toes have more webbing than fingers). Colouration is brilliantly green dorsally and creamy white ventrally. There are few diffused tan–dark brown markings on the back, outer extremities, and around the cloacal region. The outer parts of the limbs are whitish. The flanks have white spots in the lower parts. The iris is bronze and has a black ring around it.^[2]

Habitat and conservation

The holotype was collected in an altered but good standing forest at 560 m (1,840 ft)

The type locality falls within the Crystal Mountains National Park. There are no known threats to this species.^[1] Two of the five specimens captured in 2009 tested positive for the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the pathogen causing chytridiomycosis.^[4]

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Leptopelis crystallinoron is only known from Monts de Cristal (Crystal Mountains) in Gabon

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