Cruziohyla calcarifer

Cruziohyla calcarifer, the splendid leaf frog or splendid treefrog, is a species of tree frog of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae described in 1902 by George Albert Boulenger. It has a distribution from Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, through western Colombia and Panama to the most southerly part of Costa Rica. It is a nocturnal, arboreal frog inhabiting primary humid lowland forest.

Splendid leaf frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Cruziohyla
Species:
C. calcarifer
Binomial name
Cruziohyla calcarifer
(Boulenger, 1902)
Synonyms
  • Agalychnis calcarifer Boulenger, 1902

Genetic studies

Cruziohyla calcarifer is the most divergent species in the genus Cruziohyla. DNA analysis places Cruziohyla sylviae closer genetically to its sister species, Cruziohyla craspedopus, than to the true Cruziohyla calcarifer described by George A. Boulenger in 1902.[2]

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Cruziohyla calcarifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T151594717A3027869. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T151594717A3027869.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. Gray, Andrew R. (2018). "Review of the genus Cruziohyla (Anura: Phyllomedusidae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4450 (4): 401–426.


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