South American lime tree frog

South American lime tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sphaenorhynchus
Species: S. platycephalus
Binomial name
Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus
(Werner, 1894)

The South American lime tree frog, Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. This species is only known from the unspecified type locality of South America; it cannot be related to any known population of frogs in the wild. Its natural habitats are presumed to be rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

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