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Giant Gladiator Frog

Hypsiboas boans

Description:

fairly large frog, could fill the palm of my hand

Habitat:

amazon

Notes:

I spotted this just as we came back from a night hike. This frog was on a small bridge near Tupana Aru reserve lodge.

10 Comments

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

I'll go check them out :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate the ID's. I think I have a few more to post. However, I just checked my spottings and still have about 20 spots of amphibians without ID to challenge you with. Good luck!

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Yea, they just recently changed the Genus. All of your tropical frogs give me a nice challenge, I enjoy them! So keep uploading them :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Nevermind, now I see this was called Hyla boans, so I think we are in agreement, thanks again Ashley.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Thanks again. I think you're right. The possible ID I found for this was Hyla boans, also called the gladiator tree frog. Is it related to this? Did the genus change names?

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Also called the Giant Gladiator Frog. Please confirm! I'm fairly certain about this, but not positive :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Okay,thanks. I don't know much about identifying amphibians.

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Color is a bad thing to look at in amphibians, it varies a lot based on temperature. I'll look for it now though :)

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 10 years ago

Thanks Ashley, you're right, I didn't notice the webbing before. I've searched for flying frogs but don't see anything like this. Most of them are green.

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

I don't have time to look for an ID for this guy right now, but look at flying frogs. Normal tree frogs don't have webbing in between the toes on the front feet like that. There shouldn't be too many flying frogs, so hopefully you can find it!

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Loreto, Peru

Spotted on Dec 9, 2012
Submitted on Aug 3, 2013

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