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| San Carlos Treefrog (Dendropsophus phlebodes) Chilamate, Costa Rica |
The San Carlos Treefrog (Dendropsophus phlebodes) is one of the small "yellow treefrogs" in the genus Dendropsophus. This genus is one of my favorite frog genera simply because they are cute. For some reason, even though I've found lots and lots of D. ebraccatus and D. microcephalus, I could never find this species before this trip. Once I found my first ones, of course I found a lot of them! Typical. 🙄
This species occurs in lowland forested areas on the Atlantic versant of Nicaragua through central Panama and then across both sides of the Darién into NW Colombia. Although I found my first D. phlebodes in an area of regrown rainforest, this species is very adaptable to disrupted habitats and we also found them calling in garden ponds and flooded agricultural lands.
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| San Carlos Treefrog range map from IUCN Redlist |
I think one of the reasons I may have taken so long to find this species is how similar its call is to the other Dendropsophus. Like the Hourglass Treefrog (D. ebraccatus), the San Carlos Treefrog has a raspy "creek" call. However, it differs from the Hourglass Treefrog in that the calls have a series of trailing repeats after the main "creek" pair. I will make a comparison post for the three Central American Dendropsophus soon.
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