Pacific lowland tree frog

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Pacific lowland tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Dendropsophus
Species:
D. gryllatus
Binomial name
Dendropsophus gryllatus
(Duellman, 1973)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla gryllatus (Duellman, 1973)
  • Dendropsophus gryllatus (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

The Pacific lowland tree frog (Dendropsophus gryllatus) is a frog that lives in northwestern Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 200 and 500 meters above sea level.[3][1]

The adult male frog is 22.6 to 25.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 27.5 to 30.6 mm long. This frog has a mark on its back that looks like the letter n. This frog can live in banana farms.[1]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read; Gabriela Pazmiño-Armijos (January 4, 2012). "Pacific Lowland Tree Frog: Dendropsophus gryllatus" (in Spanish). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2018). "Pacific Lowland Treefrog: Dendropsophus gryllatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55496A98648147. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T55496A98648147.en. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Dendropsophus gryllatus (Bokermann, 1964)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved May 31, 2021.