Boana geographica

The map tree frog, Boana geographica, is a hylid of tropical South America east of the Andes, and it also occurs in Trinidad. It is widely distributed in southern and eastern Venezuela (Barrio-Amorós 2019). Its name comes from the reticulated, map-like pattern on its eyelids, and it was formerly known as Hyla geographica (Wikipedia, general species account). Its body size averages about 85mm (AmphiBIO, Oliveira et al. 2017).

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry and moist lowland forests, moist savanna, grassland, rivers, lakes, marshes, plantations, rural gardens, degraded former forests, ponds and aquaculture ponds (Wikipedia, general species account). Eggs and tadpoles occur in streams, streamside ponds and lakes in terra-firme forest, at forest edges and in várzea floodplains (Tadpoles of Central Amazonia). In life the tadpoles are black, and they gather into schools of up to about 3000 individuals that stay together through development (Tadpoles of Central Amazonia). It is nocturnal and eats arthropods, and clutches of 186 to 4,300 eggs have been recorded (AmphiBIO, Oliveira et al. 2017).