Hyalinobatrachium pulveratum

Chiriqui Glass Frog

Taylor, 1949

Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Centrolenidae
Group: Pulverata

Description

Small species (typically 26mm-28mm). Dorsal coloration is green with numerous small white spots scattered throughout. Iris silver with slight black reticulation. Slight fleshy fringe along outside regions of forearm, and lower leg. Snout slightly elongated. Extensive webbing between fingers II-III-IV. Venter and parietal peritoneum transparent. Organs covered in white lining.

Distribution

Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, and Colombia.

Habitat & Ecology

Nocturnal and riparian (found in the vegetation above and near streams).

Reproduction

This smaller species often calls from the tops of leaves overhanging moving water. The advertisement calls of this species are singular or a series of high pitched "ticks". The green eggs of this species are typically deposited on the tips of leaves hanging in a thick jelly mass slightly smaller then a golf ball.

Conservation

Status: Not Listed, but habitat destruction threatens amphibians worldwide.

Other Comments

Information Pending

References

Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp
Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.

Other Available References from Amphibian Species of the World

Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, Herpetol. Contrib. W. C. H. Peters: 41.
Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Sci. Mex., Am. Cent., 3: 41.
Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 393
Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 614.
Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 24.
Savage, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 328.
Taylor, 1949, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 258.
Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 35.

Reference written by Brian Kubicki, Escuela de Biología,
Universidad Latina, San José, Costa Rica
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