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The female frog lays her eggs on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the frogs carry the tadpoles to water. [1] The tadpoles measure 12.10 to 27.13 mm long during stages 25-40. They are brown in color with dark brown-black spots. The tail is light brown near the body and lighter gray-tan near the end. There are small gray and brown spots on the tail.
The tadpoles take about two months to become frogs. [6] This frog's predators include water snakes, foxes, birds, raccoons, and such arthropods as crayfish and spiders. [6] Scientists named this frog kalmi for Pehr Kalm, also called Peter Kalm, a Swedish traveler who wrote a book called Travels into North America in 1772. In that book, he ...
To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife of Khnum by whom she became the mother of Her-ur. [2] It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft.
The female frog can lay 1000 eggs per clutch. [2] The name cunauaru comes from the language of the indigenous people of the Amazon area. The name is onomatopoeia for the frog's call and also sounds like "toad wife." It also refers to the way the male frog calls for the female frog on nights when the moon is bright. [2]
The adult male frogs perch in crevices in plant roots no higher than 40 cm above the forest floor. Then they call to the female frogs. Scientists believe that the female frog lays her eggs on the ground and that, after the eggs hatch, the adult frogs carry the tadpoles to water. [1] With tadpoles. Amapá, Brazil
Agalychnis psilopygion is a species of frog in the subfamily Phyllomedusinae. It is found in southern Colombia and north-western Ecuador. It has been observed between 100 and 500 meters above sea level. [2] [3] [4] This frog lives in mature forests. The female frog lays eggs on leaves over water. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the ...
The adult male frog measures 16.8 to 17.6 mm (0.66 to 0.69 in) in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 17.7 to 20.3 mm (0.70 to 0.80 in). The skin of the frog's throat has dark brown or black spots, which scientists use to distinguish the frog from its congeners, which either have different spots or no spots at all.
Phrynomedusa marginata, the bicolored leaf frog, is a species of frog in the subfamily Phyllomedusinae. It is endemic to Brazil. [2] [3] People have seen it between 600 and 800 meters above sea level. [1] This arboreal frog lives in the canopy in Atlantic rainforests. The female frog lays eggs in cracks in the rock over water.