Cruziohyla craspedopus

The fringed leaf frog (Cruziohyla craspedopus) is a frog that lives in Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 30 and 1600 meters above sea level.^[2][3][1]

This is a large frog with green skin and pale spots. It has yellow color on its legs and sides. There are brown bars vertically down its sides.^[3]

The adult male frog is 55 to 57 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 69 to 73 mm long.^[3]

This frog lives in forest that has never been cut down.^[3] It lives high in the trees where the branches come together like a roof.^[1]

Unlike other leaf frogs, the female fringed leaf frog puts her eggs right in the water, about 14 to 21 eggs at a time. Scientists once saw adult frogs moving their eggs from the water to a mass of roots hanging over the water.^[3]

People have seen the tadpoles in very small pools of water: For example, in the hollows of trees or in large puddles where larger animals have wallowed in the mud.^[3] Scientists think these tadpoles can swim and grow in bodies of water made by humans if there are enough trees close by.^[1]

Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place.^[1]