''Dendrophryniscus skuki'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to northeastern Brazil and only known from its type locality in the municipality of Itacaré, state of Bahia. This species is dedicated to herpetologist Gabriel "Gabo" Skuk, the species describer's friend who perished in a diving accident.

Description

The holotype is an adult male with a stout build and measuring in

snout–vent length Snout–vent length (SVL) is a morphometric measurement taken in herpetology from the tip of the snout to the most posterior opening of the cloacal slit (vent)."direct line distance from tip of snout to posterior margin of vent" It is the most c ...

. The head is slightly longer than it is wide. The snout is long, narrow, and spatulate when viewed from above. The canthus rostralis is distinct and slightly concave. The eyes are large but not prominent. The tympanum is hidden. Apart from the gular region and chest that are barely rugose, skin is rugose with uniformly distributed rounded tubercles. The parotoid glands are large and rounded. The fingers and the toes are slender and have rounded tips and no webbing, although the toes are slightly fringed. The preserved specimen is dorsally dark brownish gray with clear brownish gray interorbital bar and dorsolateral blotches. The venter and ventral surfaces of arms and thighs are cream with diffuse gray stains and dots.

Habitat and conservation

The holotype was collected from a near-coastal locality at

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

. No other ecological data accompany the species description. As of late 2020, this species had not been assessed for the

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biologi ...

References

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