Amazon Milk Tree Frog, These frogs are light grayish in color with brown or black banding. Juveniles show stronger contrast which fades somewhat with maturity. Skin also becomes somewhat bumpy as they age.
Source: Animal Fact Files
Species Specifics
This species was formerly in the genus Phrynohyas. However, it was synonymous with Trachycephalus after an extensive revision of the Hylidae family in 2005.
Physical properties
This species is sometimes called the yellow-eyed mission tree frog because of its golden iris, with a black Maltese cross in the middle of the pupil. It is also known as the sailing frog, “sapo canoeiro”, because of its call, which sounds like oars against the side of a boat.
Habitat
On or near slow moving water in humid rainforest areas.
Allotment
Rarely recorded, perhaps because of its arboreal habit.
Diet
Adults will consume almost any small arthropod they can tame and devour.
Eco Web
This frog lives in the canopy of tropical primary rainforest, where they breed in tree hollows and may rarely burrow into the ground, if at all. It breeds in tree hollows and is characterized by a loud sound.
Social behavior
Amazon milk frogs work well in groups. Hypersexual males can sometimes harass females, but the Amazon Milk Frogs usually live peacefully in groups.
Birth child
There is no fixed reproduction period. Females will lay about 2000 eggs in water that are caught in leaves or plants. The tadpoles hatch after a day. Just three weeks later, the metamorphosis was complete.
