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Duellmanohyla rufioculis
Nocturnal tree frog. Upper part granulate to smooth with green to brown coloration. White abdomen. Distinctive red eyes. Males 25-30 mm and females 33-40 mm.
This species occurs on the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of the mountains of Costa Rica, at elevations of 500-1,580m. It lives in premontane wet forest and rainforest. A nocturnal stream breeder, males call throughout the year but are most active from August to December. The species sometimes aggregates around small, shallow streams or seeps draining into streams. Tadpoles are found in quiet pools. Frog Pond, exhibit, Monteverde.
http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubisen/FMPro?-... MY 2000th SPOTTING: YEE HAW!
Spotted on Apr 9, 2014
Submitted on May 15, 2014
23 Comments
Many thanks, Leuba! Thanks to all of your for also sharing your onw spottings! Is so nice to be able to see through PN what is there in other lands! :-)
He looks very pleased ... . Congratulations on your lovely 2000th spotting, Marta ! and thank you for sharing your knowledge and your great spottings.
Your welcome. Look forward to more spots. Your guess is right, I still have many, many more to post.
Thank you Dan! I am excited because I am still by day 2 of my 19 days of stay in CR so imagine how many more spottings I have on the way! I guess you may still have many of Borneo to post as well :-)
Congrats Marta! Welcome to the club.
¡Gracias Eulalia! :-)
Felicidades, Marta ¡2000!
Haha Tizz, is true :-)
Thanks to you and Antonio too! I feel very honored to enter in the 2K club! :-)
Very nice series Marta and welcome to the 2k club :-)
Congrfats and thanks for sharing such a beautiful and diversify spotting page
Oh what a great achievement! Happy 2000, and a great photo to represent it. It looks like those eyes are about to pop out of the head :)
More thank yous :-) ..I thought I would have reached this number 2K after all my CR spottings were done but in fact I am still only by day 2 out of 17 days so I now wonder if it will make me go past 2100! (Costa Rica and Central America in general are wonderful places for biodiversity of species!)
wow!!! so cute
Congratulations Marta for your 2K spotting! ¡¡Enhorabuena!!
Thanks, Pieter! ;-)
Congrats Marta! And nice spotting!
Thanks! I chose the best shot I think I have of a frog spotting because all the others being night and with bad illumination are rather blurry..I will post them too for their species but the 2000 deserved a better example haha! :-)
Congratulations Marta!
Congrats!!
Thank you!
Congratulations on 2K !! Froggy looks happy about it too.
Wonderful eyes on this tiny beauty!
Beauty !
Congrats!!