Masked Tree Frog
Smilisca phaeota
- Class
- Amphibian
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,150
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The New Granada cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), also known as the masked tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, ponds, and canals and ditches. Their nickname of masked tree frog comes from the black or dark colored markings that start at their nose and go…
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “New Granada cross-banded tree frog”.