Scinax boulengeri

Scinax boulengeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Scinax
Species:
S. boulengeri
Binomial name
Scinax boulengeri
(Cope, 1867)
Synonyms[3]
  • Scytopis boulengeri (Cope, 1887)
  • Hyla boulengeri (Günther, 1901)
  • Ololygon boulengeri (Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977)
  • Scinax boulengeri (Duellman and Wiens, 1992)

Boulenger's snouted tree frog (Scinax boulengeri) is a frog that lives in Central America. People have seen it as far north as Nicaragua and as far south as Colombia. Scientists have seen it as high as 600 meters above sea level.[3][3][1][2]

The adult male frog is 36 to 49 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog was 42 to 53 mm long. This frog is gray, dull green, or light brown in color. It has dark brown marks. It can have a triangle between its eyes. There are bars on its front and back legs. It has a white throat. Its belly is white. Its middle is green. Its sides are yellow-green.[1]

This frog hides during the day and looks for food at night. It lives in the trees. Unlike other tree frogs, it lays eggs whether it has rained hard or not. The male frogs hide in plants near the edges of ponds. Then they sing for the female frogs. The female frog lays her eggs in water that is not deep, 600-700 eggs at a time. The eggs hatch after one or one and a half days. The tadpoles are silver-yellow in color. They grow into frogs in 40 to 88 days.[1]

References

[change | change source]
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Stephen Chu (March 19, 2008). Kellie Whittaker (ed.). "Scinax boulengeri: Boulenger's Snouted Treefrog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Boulenger's Snouted Treefrog: Scinax boulengeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55937A54348271. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T55937A54348271.en. S2CID 243694423. 55937. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Scinax boulengeri (Cope, 1867)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 14, 2022.