Hyloscirtus alytolylax
The babbling stream frog, babbling torrenter, or tadapi tree frog (Hyloscirtus alytolylax) is a frog. It lives in Colombia between 500 and 2159 meters above sea level and in Ecuador between 400 and 2000 meters above sea level.[2][1][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Hyloscirtus |
| Species: | H. alytolylax
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| Hyloscirtus alytolylax (Duellman, 1972)
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The adult male frog is 32.1–37.0 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 37.2–43.9 mm long. The skin on the frog's back is brown-green, yellow-green, gray-green, or light green in color with yellow stripes.[1]
This frog hides during the day and moves at night. It can live in secondary forest if the right plants grow there. Adult frogs sit on plants 0.5 to 4.0 meters above the ground. Tadpoles and young frogs live in and near streams where the water moves quickly.[1]
The frog's scientific name comes from Greek: "Alytos" means "continuing" and "lylax" means "talks very much." This is because the of frog's call.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron; Gabriela Pazmiño-Armijos (June 14, 2011). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Hyloscirtus alytolylax". AmphibiaWeb (in español). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Hyloscirtus alytolylax Duellman, 1972". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Cordillera Central Treefrog: Hyloscirtus alytolylax". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T89255304A85897607. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T89255304A85897607.en. 89255304. Retrieved October 9, 2022.