Niceforonia mantipus

Niceforonia mantipus, the mantipus robber frog, is a species of frog in the family Strabomantidae. It is endemic to Colombia and found on the Cordillera Occidental and Cordillera Central, 800–2,400 m (2,600–7,900 ft) asl. Its natural habitats are cloud forests and secondary forests. It lives in leaf-litter and on ground. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Niceforonia mantipus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Strabomantidae
Genus: Niceforonia
Species:
N. mantipus
Binomial name
Niceforonia mantipus
(Boulenger, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Leptodactylus mantipus Boulenger, 1908
  • Eleutherodactylus mantipus (Boulenger, 1908)
  • Hypodactylus mantipus (Boulenger, 1908)
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