Scinax cretatus

species of amphibian

Scinax cretatus is a frog. It lives in Brazil.[3][1]

Scinax cretatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Scinax
Species:
S. cretatus
Binomial name
Scinax cretatus
(Nunes and Pombal, 2011)

This frog lives near the edges of forests and lakes. It lives in forests not far above sea level.[3]

The adult male frog is 25.8 to 34.7 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 29.2 to 32.5 mm long. The skin on its back is dark brown with white stripes.[4]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Scinax cretatus". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Scinax cretatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T48086104A177145880. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T48086104A177145880.en. 48086104. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Scinax cretatus Nunes and Pombal, 2011". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  4. Ivan Nunes; José P Pombal Jr (2011). "A new snouted treefrog of the speciose genus Scinax Wagler (Anura, Hylidae) from northeastern Brazil". Herpetologica (preview). 67: 80–88. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00026.1. S2CID 85330206. Retrieved June 6, 2022.