Trachycephalus macrotis
species of amphibian
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The Amazonian milk frog (Trachycephalus macrotis) is a frog that lives in Peru and Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 225 and 925 meters above sea level.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Trachycephalus |
| Species: | T. macrotis
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| Binomial name | |
| Trachycephalus macrotis (Andersson, 1945)
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The adult male frog is 6.98 to 91.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 93.9 to 118.7 mm long. It has bronze-colored skin with coffee-colored marks. It has small disks on all its toes for climbing.[2]
This frog has many young at once after it rains heavily. It is called an explosive breeder because of this.[2]
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Trachycephalus macrotis (Andersson, 1945)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Santiago R. Ron; Morley Read; Gabriela Pazmiño-Armijos; Andrea Varela-Jaramillo (January 12, 2018). Santiago R. Ron (ed.). "Trachycephalus macrotis" (in Spanish). Amphibiaweb. Retrieved March 31, 2022.