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The frog's coloration is representative of flash coloration. Flash coloration describes when an organism displays certain colors at rest compared to when in motion. [8] In the red-eyed tree frog's case, the frog's startling red eyes are hidden when its eyes are closed allowing it to blend in with leaves.
The adult male frog has a gray belly and the adult female frog has a white belly. The throat and chest are bright yellow. The scutes are gray-tan in color. The iris of the eye is red-bronze in color with black marks and a brown stripe in it. The male frog's testes are white in color. [3] The frog's voice sounds like a high-pitched whistle.
The adult male frog measures 46.2 mm (1.82 in) to 51.5 mm (2.03 in) cm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 62.2 mm (2.45 in) to 65.2 mm (2.57 in). The pupils of this frog's eyes are vertical. Its Latin name refers to the purple color on its skin. It is mostly green in color, with white spots on its flanks. [3]
The belly of the frog is a cream color, and the tips of the frog's hands are a bright yellow. It has a large, wide head with an oval body and a rounded snout. It has short limbs, and has large eyes that face forward. The Highland frog's eyes have diamond-shaped pupils. The female frogs are slightly larger than the male frogs.
This frog is light gray or light brown in color on the dorsum with a dark spot on its head resembling a moth or a human molar. There is a whitish stripe on each side of the body. The upper half of the iris of the eye is red in color and the bottom half is gray. The ventrum is whitish. [3] The tadpole is about 22.2 mm long in total length.
The parietal eye (very small grey oval between the regular eyes) of a juvenile bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) Adult green anole (Anolis carolinensis) clearly showing the parietal eye (small grey/clear oval) at the top of its head Parietal eye of the Merrem's Madagascar swift (Oplurus cyclurus) is surrounded by a black-and-white spot on the skin, giving it the "three-eyed" appearance
The skin of the dorsum is red-brown in the middle of the back and gray-brown with black marks on the sides of the back. The ventrum is gray-white in color. The toes are dark gray in color, and the tops of the toes have some yellow color. [4] Many parts of the frog's eye are brown in color. [4] This frog is critically endangered.
Nyctimystes latratus is a species of tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae endemic to Papua New Guinea. [2] Scientists have seen it between 500 and 1200 meters above sea level on Mount Dayman and near the Bai-u River. [3] [2] [1] This frog's eyes are gold in color.