Osteocephalus alboguttatus

The whitebelly tree frog (Osteocephalus alboguttatus) is a frog. It lives Ecuador in the Amazon Basin. Scientists have seen it as high as 600 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

Osteocephalus alboguttatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species:
O. alboguttatus
Binomial name
Osteocephalus alboguttatus
(Boulenger, 1882)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla alboguttata Boulenger, 1882
  • "Hyla" alboguttata Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
  • Osteocephalus alboguttatus Wiens, Graham, Moen, Smith, and Reeder, 2006

The adult male frog is about 34 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 35-46 mm long. This frog is brown in color with large white spots and a white belly. It has light brown color on its sides. The young frogs have cream-colored stripes. The iris of the eye is green-gold in color with black marks.[1]

This frog lives in open places, forests, and banana farms.[1]

The scientific name of this species comes from the Latin words albo for "white" and gutta for "spot."[1]

References
  1. Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read (March 4, 2011). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Osteocephalus alboguttatus". AmphibiaWeb (in Spanish). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2019). "Osteocephalus alboguttatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55375A61397461. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T55375A61397461.en. 55375. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. "Osteocephalus alboguttatus (Smith and Noonan, 2001)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
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