Cruziohyla calcarifer

Cruziohyla calcarifer, the splendid leaf frog or splendid treefrog, is a tree frog of the family Phyllomedusidae described in 1902 by George Albert Boulenger. It has a distribution from Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, through western Colombia and Panama to the most southerly part of Costa Rica. It is a nocturnal, arboreal frog inhabiting primary humid lowland forest.

Splendid leaf frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Cruziohyla
Species:
C. calcarifer
Binomial name
Cruziohyla calcarifer
(Boulenger, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Agalychnis calcarifer Boulenger, 1902

References

  1. Luis A. Coloma; Santiago Ron; Karl-Heinz Jungfer; Brian Kubicki; Federico Bolaños; Gerardo Chaves; Frank Solís; Roberto Ibáñez; César Jaramillo; Jay Savage; et al. (2004). "Cruziohyla calcarifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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