Orinoco lime tree frog

Sphaenorhynchus lacteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sphaenorhynchus
Species: S. lacteus
Binomial name
Sphaenorhynchus lacteus
(Daudin, 1801)
Synonyms

Hyla aurantiaca Daudin, 1802
Hyla lactea Daudin, 1802
Sphaenorhynchus eurhostus Rivero, 1969

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.

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