Common Name: Beireis’ Treefrog or Clown Tree Frog
Scientific Name: Dendropsophus leucophyllatus
Family: Hylidae – Tree Frog family
Location: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname (Potentially Venezuela)
Female Size: 1.5 inches (38 mm)
Male Size: 1.1 inches (30 mm)
The Beireis’ Treefrog, a colorful, arboreal species of frog, lives both high and low in the canopies of rainforests, swamps, and forest savannas in South America. The frog spends most of their life in the trees, even reproducing there. The eggs are laid on leaves overhanging water. Once the tadpoles hatch from the eggs, they drop into the water below where they will complete their metamorphosis.
The species is named after its describer Gottfried Christoph Beireis, a German chemist, doctor, generally weird dude but not a nazi because he lived from 1730 – 1809, before real nazis existed. Probably racist though.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assess the Beireis’ Treefrog as Least Concern for Extinction. They have a huge range and a presumed big population.