#1992 · 🐸 amphibians

Masked Tree Frog

🇳🇱 Gemaskerde boomkikker ·Smilisca phaeota

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Khristian Venegas Valencia · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Felipe Barrera Ocampo · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Kurt lindhult · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Lepidoptera Colombiana 🇨🇴 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jay · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. San Carlos, Alajuela, CR:© alfredv388 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. XP4X+R9, Portoviejo, Ecuador:© Sociedad por la Biodiversidad de la Costa · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. La Tola, Nariño, Colombia:© David Ricardo Rodríguez-Villamil · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Sarapiquí, Heredia, CR:© Moisés Elí · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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 forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, ponds, and canals and ditches.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,849iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,849 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1862 (164 years ago).