Boettger's Colombian tree frog

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The Boettger's Colombian tree frog (Dendropsophus columbianus) is a frog that lives in Colombia. Scientists have seen it between 950 and 2300 meters above sea level.[1][3]

Boettger's Colombian tree frog
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Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Dendropsophus
Species:
D. columbianus
Binomial name
Dendropsophus columbianus
(Boettger, 1892)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla columbiana (Boettger, 1892)
  • Hyla variabilis (Boulenger, 1896)
  • Dendropsophus elegans (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

Scientists have seen this frog in areas that used to be cloud forests before human beings changed them. They have seen the frog hiding in agave plants during the day and by pools of water at night.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron. "Boettger's Colombian Tree Frog: Dendropsophus columbianus" (in español). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  2. Template:Cite IUCN
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Dendropsophus columbianus (Boettger, 1892)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved March 17, 2021.