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RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

herpdude86 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:42:58 GMT

Those pics are awesome. I especially like the clowns, the giraffe phase if my favorite, but I never found them in captivity, just the clown phase, which is beautiful too.

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

MeganRM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:21:11 GMT

Those are some cool pictures.

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

FrogmanJared — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:45:12 GMT

Bill Love (9/28/2008)

Interestingshots! One really caught my eye among them all --- the horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta. I've never seen one looking so dark like that before, and I immediately thought it might instead be one of the large, mysterious species like C. dorsata that no one ever sees in the U.S. Well, it is probably cornuta, just a cool, darker one than my range of experience has come across. Even this 'common' species is seldom posted on anyone's photo trips to the Amazon, so it's still an interesting find to me. May I inquire about the habitat, and even microhabitat of the situation in which you found it?

They are quite easy to spot at night, when you look for them by eyeshine. They were found anywhere that wasn't too close to water. They are found in areas with lots of leaf litter (pretty much anywhere). We found some near bases of large trees, as they don't move very often, and when they do, not very far, so it takes them a while to get around a large buttress root. We found a few juveniles on the trails themselves, but that wasn't very common. That's definitely C. cornuta, the only horned frog in the area, they can be bright green, or dark like that.

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

Bill Love — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:25:02 GMT

Interesting shots! One really caught my eye among them all --- the horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta. I've never seen one looking so dark like that before, and I immediately thought it might instead be one of the large, mysterious species like C. dorsata that no one ever sees in the U.S. Well, it is probably cornuta, just a cool, darker one than my range of experience has come across. Even this 'common' species is seldom posted on anyone's photo trips to the Amazon, so it's still an interesting find to me. May I inquire about the habitat, and even microhabitat of the situation in which you found it?

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

FrogmanJared — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:14:08 GMT

BigCatTattoos (9/27/2008)

Wow great pitures! Bet you had fun! What are the common names to the frogs you have on there? thanks for sharing those awesome herps! Marine

The Hyla leucophyllata(under a diff. genus now) Is the clown tree frog. Most frogs you find in the tropics don't have a common name because there are so many, and we know very little about their habits and biology. The more a frog becomes studied, or is in the pet trade is when they acquire a common name.

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

BigCatTattoos — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:28:08 GMT

Wow great pitures! Bet you had fun! What are the common names to the frogs you have on there? thanks for sharing those awesome herps! Marine

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

oneWorld — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:15:51 GMT

Nice pictures! I think that this topic is fine where it is, since its mainly pics anyway.

RE: Peruvian Amazon herps!

FrogmanJared — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:16:12 GMT

ooops... is there any way a mod can move this to the "into the wild" section?

Peruvian Amazon herps!

FrogmanJared — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:06:17 GMT

These are photos from a research trip in Peru... please don't steal any! Enjoy!

White caiman, fun to catch!

Ceratophrys cornuta (horned frog)

Phyllomedusa vaillanti

Hyla leucophyllata (Giraffe pattern)

Hyla leucophyllata (Intermediate pattern)

Hyla leucophyllata (Clown pattern)

Gonatodes humeralis (very quick and hard to catch!)

Eleutherodactylus toftae (this genus exhibits direct development!)