Trachycephalus macrotis

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Trachycephalus macrotis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Trachycephalus
Species:
T. macrotis
Binomial name
Trachycephalus macrotis
(Andersson, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hyla macrotis (Andersson, 1945)
  • Trachycephalus macrotis (Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016)

The Amazonian milk frog (Trachycephalus macrotis) is a frog that lives in Peru and Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 225 and 925 meters above sea level.[1][2]

The adult male frog is 6.98 to 91.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 93.9 to 118.7 mm long. It has bronze-colored skin with coffee-colored marks. It has small disks on all its toes for climbing.[2]

This frog has many young at once after it rains heavily. It is called an explosive breeder because of this.[2]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Trachycephalus macrotis (Andersson, 1945)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read; Gabriela Pazmiño-Armijos; Andrea Varela-Jaramillo (January 12, 2018). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Trachycephalus macrotis" (in Spanish). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved March 31, 2022.