Orinoco lime tree frog
| Sphaenorhynchus lacteus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Sphaenorhynchus |
| Species: | S. lacteus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphaenorhynchus lacteus (Daudin, 1801) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hyla aurantiaca Daudin, 1802 | |
The Orinoco lime tree frog, Sphaenorhynchus lacteus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and possibly Bolivia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, inland deltas, heavily degraded former forests, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Coloma, L.A., Ron, S. & Hardy, J. 2004. Sphaenorhynchus lacteus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.
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