Bokermannohyla alvarengai

Bokermannohyla alvarengai
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Bokermannohyla
Species:	B. alvarengai
Binomial name
Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Bokermann, 1956)
Synonyms
Hyla alvarengai (Bokermann, 1956) Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

The Santa Barbara tree frog or Alvarenga's tree frog (Bokermannohyla alvarengai) is a frog that lives in Brazil. It lives in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains.

With most frogs, the adult female is larger than the adult male. But with these frogs, the male frog is larger than the female frog. The male frogs also have larger, stronger front legs and larger spines. Scientists say that when male frogs are larger than female frogs, it is because the male frogs fight each other. Male Santa Barbara tree frogs sometimes have scars on their skin that could be from fighting each other. But few teams of scientists have watched and written science papers about Santa Barbara tree frogs. They do not know for sure if this is why the male frogs are larger.