Andes giant glass frog

Andes giant glass frog
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Centrolenidae
Genus: Espadarana
Species:
E. andina
Binomial name
Espadarana andina
(Rivero, 1968)
Synonyms
  • Centrolenella andina Rivero, 1968
  • Centrolenella lentiginosa Rivero, 1985
  • Centrolene lentiginosum (Rivero, 1985)
  • Centrolene andinum (Rivero, 1968)

The Andes giant glass frog (Espadarana andina) is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae. It is found in the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and the Mérida Andes and Serranía del Perijá of Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are cloud forests and montane evergreen dry forests. It lives along mountain streams and lays its eggs on vegetation over the streams. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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