Osteocephalus alboguttatus
species of amphibian
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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Osteocephalus |
| Species: | O. alboguttatus
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| Osteocephalus alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1882)
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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
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
