Red-skirted tree frog

The red-skirted tree frog (Dendropsophus rhodopeplus) is a frog that lives in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. Scientists have seen it as high as 1200 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Red-skirted 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. rhodopeplus
Binomial name
Dendropsophus rhodopeplus
(Günther, 1858)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla rhodopepla (Günther, 1858)
  • Hyla rhodopepla (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Hyla aluminiata (Andersson, 1906)
  • Hyla rufopunctata (Andersson, 1906)
  • Hyla albida (Melin, 19410
  • Dendropsophus rhodopeplus (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

This frog is yellow and dark red in color. The adult male frog is 15.34 to 25.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 26.8 to 27.7 mm long. It lays eggs whenever the weather is good for laying eggs.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Morley Read; Santiago R. Ron (February 14, 2012). "Red-skirted Tree Frog: Dendropsophus rhodopeplus" (in español). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
  2. Template:Cite IUCN
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Dendropsophus rhodopeplus (Günther, 1858)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 14, 2021.