The Ecuador slender-legged tree frog (''Osteocephalus verruciger'') is a species of
frog in the family
Hylidae found in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
and
Ecuador.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests, subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests,
rivers, intermittent freshwater
marshes, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forests.
The adult male frog measures 44.3–53.9 mm long in
snout-vent length and the adult female frog 45.5–70.0 mm. The male frog has olive colored dorsal skin and the female frog dark brown. The
groin and the upper front legs are dark brown. There is dark red-brown color on the feet. The throat is cream in color. The belly is red-bronze in color with dark brown marks.
References
Osteocephalus
Amphibians described in 1901
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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