La Loma tree frog
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. colymba
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| Hyloscirtus colymba (Dunn, 1931)
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The La Loma tree frog (Hyloscirtus colymba) is a frog. It lives in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Panama. Scientists have seen it as high as 1410 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]
The adult male frog is 31.1 to 37.0 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 36.7 to 43.3 mm long. This frog is light green to light brown in color. Its belly is blue-green. There is a white line over each eye. There is a yellow stripe to the rear end. The frog's bones are green. We can see the bones through the skin. There is some webbed skin on the front feet and more on the back feet. There are disks on the frog's toes for climbing, but they are small. The male frog sounds like a cricket when it sings for the female frogs.[1]
The male frog is very careful. If it thinks anything big is nearby, it will stop making noise. It will hide under big rocks and stay there until it thinks it is safe.[1]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sean Schoville (February 28, 2000). Michelle S. Koo (ed.). "Hyloscirtus colymba". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus colymba (Dunn, 1931)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "La Loma Treefrog: Hyloscirtus palmeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55455A85333799. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55455A85333799.en. S2CID 242990264. 55455. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
