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The Costa Rica brook frog or red-eyed stream frog [2] (Duellmanohyla uranochroa) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Costa Rica and Panama.Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rivers between 70 and 1740 meters above sea level.
Males of this large, robust frog are slightly larger than females; they attain a maximum snout-vent length of 18.0 cm (7.1 in), whereas the maximum length in females is 17.6 cm (6.9 in). Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica. The body is robust; the head is large with an acutely rounded snout and prominent tympanum.
Ctenophryne aterrima (common name: Costa Rica Nelson frog, reflecting its earlier placement in Nelsonophryne) is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.It is found in northwestern Ecuador, the Andes of Colombia, and lowland and premontane zones of Panama and Costa Rica to about 1,600 m (5,200 ft) above sea level.
This is a list of amphibians found in Costa Rica. A total of 194 amphibian species have been recorded in Costa Rica , three of which are extinct. This list is derived from the database listing of AmphibiaWeb . [ 1 ]
Notable frog species in Costa Rica include red-eyed tree frog, a few species of poison dart frogs, the semitransparent glassfrogs, and the large smoky jungle frog. Some other notable toad species in Costa Rica include the ten species of Bufo toads and the giant toad, a huge toad known for its wide appetite. It has been documented eating almost ...
Agalychnis lemur, the lemur leaf frog or lemur frog, is a species of frog in the subfamily Phyllomedusinae. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and adjacent northwestern Colombia. [ 3 ] It is classed as Critically Endangered and threatened by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis .
In Costa Rica, these frogs live in lowland wet forests, rain forests, and even in higher elevations. They do not like dry areas such as the northwestern lowlands, high mountains, or coasts. Of all the glass frogs in Costa Rica, Fleischmann's glass frogs are the most populous. [7] The glass frogs are also arboreal, which means they reside in trees.
Atelopus varius, the Costa Rican variable harlequin toad or clown frog, is a small Neotropical true toad from the family Bufonidae. [2] Once ranging from Costa Rica to Panama, A. varius is now listed as critically endangered and has been reduced to a single remnant population near Quepos, Costa Rica (rediscovered in 2003), and has only relict populations in western Panama. [1]