Description: The common Mexican tree frog is generally brown-grey in color, with darker brown, irregular blotching. Its underside is typically a lighter grey or white. Its legs have distinctive dark banding.
Habitat: Lowlands and foothills; xerophytic vegetation and savannas in semiarid regions in north, humid evergreen forest in Caribbean lowlands of Central America; gardens with pools. Vicinity of ponds, pools, canals, and flooded fields. Hides underground, under tree bark, in leaf axils, or in tree holes when inactive. Breeds in ponds.
Range: Atlantic and Pacific versants, from the Rio Grande embayment in extreme southern Texas, U.S.A., southward to Costa Rica, including the Yucatan Peninsula. In the Pacific, from southern Sonora southward to central Costa Rica.
Reproduction: The frogs breed at anytime of the year following enough rain fall. Breeding for the Common Mexican Tree Frog is pretty standard. The males migrate to shallows of water bodies and start to call. Once the female shows up, the male grasps her from behind in the amplexus position. Then, the female lays her eggs and the male fertilizes them. The female lays between 2,500-3,500 eggs.
Status: The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List classifies the frog as Least Concern for Extinction. The state of Texas lists them as a Threatened Species but there is no federal listing. In Texas, there are only small isolated populations of the frog while south of the border, the frog is very common.
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