What is Plectrohyla dasypus?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image =Plectrohyla dasypus01.jpeg | status =CR | status_ref =<ref name=Amph /><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55873/176955542 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title= Honduras Spikethumb Frog: ''Plectrohyla dasypus'' |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |year=2020 |accessdate=November 30, 2021 |volume= 2020 |page= e.T55873A176955542 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55873A176955542.en}}</ref> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Plectrohyla dasypus | authority = (McCranie and Wilson, 1981) | range_map = |synonyms=*''Plectrohyla dasypus'' (McCranie and Wilson, 1981) *''Hyla dasypus'' (Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005) | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH />}} The '''Honduras spikethumb frog''' (''Plectrohyla dasypus'') is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Honduras]]. It lives in pine-oak forests. Scientists have seen it between 1410 and 1990 meters above sea level in the [[Sierra de Omoa]] mountains.<ref name=AMNH>{{cite journal|access-date=November 30, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]]|journal=[[Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference]] |title=''Plectrohyla dasypus'' (McCranie and Wilson, 1981) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Plectrohyla/Plectrohyla-dasypus}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{cite web|publisher=[[Amphibiaweb]] |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/1038 |title=''Plectrohyla dasypus'' |date=May 19, 2014 |author=Samantha Morco |access-date=November 30, 2021}}</ref> ==Appearance== The adult male frog is 31.5 to 44.0 mm long [[snout-vent length|from nose to rear end]]. Scientists can tell this frog apart from other frogs because it has spikes on its throat near its vocal slits. Its skin is bronze in color with black spots.<ref name=Amph /> ==Threats== This frog is critically endangered. This means it could die out. One of the reasons it is endangered is that the fungus ''[[Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis]]'' kills it. The fungus makes