Agalychnis buckleyi

The warty leaf frog (Agalychnis buckleyi) is a frog that lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 400 and 1800 meters above sea level.[1][2]

Agalychnis buckleyi
Agalychnis buckleyi.jpg
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Agalychnis
Species:
A. buckleyi
Binomial name
Agalychnis buckleyi
(Boulenger, 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Phyllomedusa buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Phyllomedusa loris (Boulenger, 1912)
  • Hyla (Hylella) porifera (Andersson, 1945)
  • Phyllomedusa (Phyllomedusa) loris (Lutz, 1950)
  • Hylomantis buckleyi (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Agalychnis buckleyi (Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010)

The adult male frog is 3.9 to 4.5 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 5.0 to 5.5 cm long. The skin on its back is has small white warts. During the day, this frog is green. At night, it changes color to lavender or brown. Its underside is orange or cream-colored, and there is some red on its sides.[2]

This frog lives in the mountains. It lives in both primary forest and secondary forest.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 19, 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read (April 20, 2011). "Agalychnis buckleyi" (in español). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 19, 2021.