Veined tree frog

Common milk frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Trachycephalus
Species: T. venulosus
Binomial name
Trachycephalus venulosus
(Laurenti, 1768)
Synonyms

Argenteohyla altamazonica Henle, 1981
Hyla adenoderma B. Lutz, 1968
Hyla macrotis Andersson, 1945
Hyla tibiatrix Laurenti, 1768
Hyla zonata Spix, 1824
Phrynohyas corasterias Shannon & Humphrey, 1957
Phrynohyas ingens Duellman, 1956
Phrynohyas latifasciata Duellman, 1956
Rana venulosa Laurenti, 1768

The veined tree frog or common milk frog (rana lechera común in Spanish), Trachycephalus venulosus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. This species was previously within the genus Phrynohyas, which was recently synonymized with Trachycephalus .[1] It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, and ponds.

References

  1. (Faivovich, et al., 2005)


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