Noblella ritarasquinae is a recently described craugastorid frog known only from the undisturbed montane rainforest of the Parque Nacional Carrasco in the Chapare Río San Mateo valley of Bolivia’s eastern Andean slopes, between 1000-2000 m asl.
Very little is known about this small terrestrial frog.The type, a female, is 14.1 mm (0.56 inches) in snout-vent length. It has smooth brown skin on its back with some orange mottling and two characteristic pale bands down its back, and with a red-brown to brown belly with white spots.It is also characterized by its two phalanges in its fourth finger, large toe tips, and having no visible tympanum.It lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor and it breeds by direct development.Its population size is so far unknown.
Noblella ritarasquinae is named for Rita Rasquin (Krefeld), for her contributions to conservation and taxonomy.
(Köhler 2000a, b)
