Tiny orange frog on dead leaf, Santa María, Colombia

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John Sullivan

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It looks like a Pristimantis to me, but that is a notoriously hard genus to narrow down to species ID. And amphibiaweb.org shows 202 species of Pristimantis in Colombia!: http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?max=2000&orderbyaw=Family&include_synonymies=Yes&show_photos=Yes&rel-genus=equals&where-genus=Pristimantis&rel-isocc=occurs+in&where-isocc=Colombia

I have an entire book on this group of frogs in Peru and they are still very difficult to ID. Unfortunately I don't have any reference to these frogs in Colombia. The orange color and X-mark on the back are no doubt useful clues. Posted 8 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Thank you for trying, John, it means a lot. I thought bird identification in Colombia is challenging, until I tried amphibians. Makes birds quite easy in comparison ;) Posted 8 years ago

The Carabaya Rain Frog

''Pristimantis ockendeni'' is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Bolivia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Research published in early 2008 suggested that in Ecuador the species is actually at least three different cryptic species that diverged at least 5 million years ago.

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By Ferdy Christant

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