Mount Tucuche tree frog

The Mount Tucuche tree frog is a species of tree frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is found in Trinidad and Tobago and the Paria Peninsula, the La Cerbatana Mountains and the Campeare Mountains in Venezuela. It is an arboreal species occurring in various microhabitats of humid montane forest such as the leaf bases of bromeliads and aroids and in bushes. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species was formerly listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List.
This species is named after Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald who worked on Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s.
The male and female frogs are smaller than those of the F. pygmaeus species by approximately 25.5% and 26.6%, respectively. As in F. pygmaeus, the tadpoles have beaks with only small amounts of keratin and there are no denticles. The tadpoles are not recorded as feeding and hatch at an advanced stage of development. Two to six eggs are carried in a dorsal semi-enclosed pouch by females, having been deposited there by the males.