Reticulated Glass Frog
Hyalinobatrachium valerioi
Amphibia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-14 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Central America
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
The Reticulated Glass Frog has a lime-green body with a translucent belly through which its beating heart and other organs are clearly visible. Males are devoted fathers, guarding egg clutches plastered to the underside of leaves overhanging rainforest streams.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
- 2.tadpoleA gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
- 3.juvenileA near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
- 4.adultFully grown at adult size, breathing air.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Centrolenidae
- Genus
- Hyalinobatrachium
- Species
- Hyalinobatrachium valerioi