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Cruziohyla calcarifer, the splendid leaf frog or splendid treefrog, is a species of tree frog of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae described in 1902 by George Albert Boulenger. It has a distribution from Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, through western Colombia and Panama to the most southerly part of Costa Rica.
A Pacific tree frog (green morph) sitting on a sunflower leaf stem, Nanoose Bay British Columbia. The Pacific tree frog grows up to two inches from snout to urostyle. The males are usually smaller than the females and have a dark patch on their throats. The dark patch is the vocal sac, which stretches out when the male is calling. Pacific tree ...
Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.
Cruziohyla craspedopus is a high-canopy frog of primary tropical lowland rainforest at elevations of 50–600 m (160–1,970 ft) above sea level. It only descends to lower branches for breeding, which takes place in fallen trees holding small water pools. However, tadpoles have also been found in small pools on the ground.
Phyllomedusinae is a subfamily of hylid tree frogs found in the Neotropics commonly called leaf frogs. Formerly, they were often considered as their own family, Phyllomedusidae . The subfamily is considered to be the sister group to the Australian treefrogs ( Pelodryadinae ), a subfamily of frogs known from Australia and New Guinea , despite ...
A specimen from the "hybrid zone" of the leaf green tree frog and southern leaf green tree frog showing physical characteristics of both species. This is a fairly small species of tree frog, up to about 40 mm (1.6 inches) in length. It can be light green to dark olive green to light brown to dark brown on the dorsal surface.
Leptopelis is a genus of frogs in the family Arthroleptidae. They are found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, [1] excluding Madagascar. [2] It is placed in monotypic subfamily Leptopelinae, [3] [4] although this subfamily is not always recognized. [2] They have a number of common names, including forest treefrogs, tree frogs, leaf-frogs, [1] and ...
The mountain stream tree frog may be conspecific to Pearson's green tree frog. Morphological differences have not been fully studied yet, but visible physical differences between frogs from Barrington Tops and Dorrigo, New South Wales, in comparison to frogs from south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales are discussed in a key on the leaf green tree frog page.