Scinax caprarius, the Canastra snouted tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to sub-Andean hills in Colombia. Scientists have seen it between 900 and 1300 meters above sea level, in areas with 2800 to 5000 mm of annual rainfall.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Scinax |
| Species: | S. caprarius
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| Binomial name | |
| Scinax caprarius Acosta-Galvis, 2018
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The adult frog measures 28.6 to 31.1 mm long in snout-vent length. The male frog's advertisement call resembles a goat's bleat.[3]
References
edit- ^ Frost, Darrel R. "Scinax caprarius Acosta-Galvis, 2018". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ^ "Scinax caprarius". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ^ Acosta-Galvis AR (2018). "Una nueva rana de huesos verdes del género Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) asociada a los bosques subandinos de la cuenca del río Magdalena, Colombia". Biota Colombiana (full text) (in Spanish). 19 (1): 131–159. doi:10.21068/c2018.v19s1a11. hdl:20.500.11761/35249. S2CID 133850450. Retrieved June 1, 2022.