Mission golden-eyed tree frog
Tree hollows Toad frog ( Trachycephalus resinifictrix )
The tree cave toads frog ( Trachycephalus resinifictrix; Synonym: Phrynohyas resinifictrix ) is within the order of Anura ( Anura ) to the family of tree frogs ( Hylidae ). Some species of the genus present Trachycephalus was led to a major revision of the Hylidae family in 2005 under the name Phrynohyas.
Description
The nocturnal tree hollows toad tree frog reaches a size of up to 8 centimeters. His dark brown base color is streaked with white horizontal bands, spots and dots. The belly is cream-colored, shimmering bluish back to the flanks. The feet with adhesive disks with which they cling to leaves and branches are also brownish colored and provided with a bluish tinge. The located on the back of glandular warts from ( parotid ) but a sticky skin secretion that is used to ward off predators. Because of their very large vocal sacs are males capable of extremely loud sounds on it's own.
Distribution, life
The distribution area extends over the entire Amazon region. The species is widespread, especially in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and east of the Andes. It lives exclusively on trees. Here the animals lay their eggs from also. They use water-filled leaves and calyxes.
Adults tree hollows toads tree frogs eat besides insects everything they can overwhelm in small animals. Tadpoles live predominantly on algae, detritus and spawning.
The pairing is not bound to a solid season. Females lay in the rainy season in several stages up to 3000 eggs in water-filled hollow trees called phytotelmata. The tadpoles hatch after one day and feed on the existing in the fabric unfertilized Nähreiern. You have during the first phase of life yet external gills. After about three weeks, the metamorphosis is complete the young frog. As the adult tree hollows toads tree frogs have young frogs of the same basic color, the somewhat contrasting fails.