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Giant Gladiator Frog

Hypsiboas boans

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

fairly large frog, could fill the palm of my hand

Habitat:

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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.

Species ID Suggestions

Rusty Tree Frog

Hypsiboas boans

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AshleyT
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Comments (10)
AshleyT
I'll go check them out :)
Dan Doucette
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
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
Nevermind, now I see this was called Hyla boans, so I think we are in agreement, thanks again Ashley.
Dan Doucette
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
Also called the Giant Gladiator Frog. Please confirm! I'm fairly certain about this, but not positive :)
Dan Doucette
Okay,thanks. I don't know much about identifying amphibians.
AshleyT
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
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
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!

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PublishedAugust 3, 2013

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