Cruziohyla calcarifer
Cruziohyla calcarifer, the splendid leaf frog or splendid treefrog, is a tree frog of the family Phyllomedusidae 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.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Phyllomedusidae |
| Genus: | Cruziohyla |
| Species: | C. calcarifer |
| Binomial name | |
| Cruziohyla calcarifer (Boulenger, 1902) | |
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References
- Luis A. Coloma; Santiago Ron; Karl-Heinz Jungfer; Brian Kubicki; Federico Bolaños; Gerardo Chaves; Frank Solís; Roberto Ibáñez; César Jaramillo; Jay Savage; et al. (2004). "Cruziohyla calcarifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 9 June 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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