Marbled tree frog

Marbled tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Dendropsophus
Species:
D. marmoratus
Binomial name
Dendropsophus marmoratus
(Laurenti, 1768)
Synonyms[3]
  • Bufo marmoratus (Laurenti, 1768)
  • Buffo marmoratus (Lacépède, 1788)
  • Hyla marmorata (Daudin, 1800)
  • Calamita marmoratus (Merrem, 1820)
  • Lophopus marmoratus (Tschudi, 1838)
  • Hyla (Lophopus) marmorata (Fitzinger, 1843)
  • Hyla marmorata marmorata (Rivero, 1961)
  • Quinzhyla marmorata (Bauer, 2005)
  • Dendropsophus marmoratus (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

The marbled tree frog or marbled toad (Dendropsophus marmoratus) is a frog that lives in the Amazon Basin. Scientists have seen it in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil. Scientists have seen them as high as 1000 m above sea level.[3][1]

The adult male frog is about 29.8 to 41.5 mm in length from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 46.5 to 49.7 mm long. This frog is brown to green to reddish brown in color with a white belly.[1]

This frog lives in forests most of the time, but many of them move to areas with few trees to lay eggs. For example, they may go to temporary bodies of water or flooded ditches near the edges of the forest.[1]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron (February 6, 2012). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Dendropsophus marmoratus" (in Spanish). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  2. ↑ Claudia Azevedo-Ramos; Enrique La Marca; Luis A. Coloma; Santiago Ron (2004). "Dendropsophus marmoratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55548A11330574. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55548A11330574.en. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dendropsophus marmoratus (Laurenti, 1768)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved March 24, 2021.