Red Eyed Tree Frogs - Agalychnis Callidryas

Red Eyed Tree Frogs originate in the rainforests of Central and South America. Their eyes are bright red while their bodies are splashed with red, white, blue, and orange.



















The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) is a beautiful phyllomedusine hylid found in forests from southern Mexico to extreme eastern Panama.
Females, the lager sex, attain about 3 inches in length, and males reach a snout-vent length of about 2.25 inches. What red-eyes may lack in size, they make up for in coloration.



















White dorsal spots may be profuse, few, or lacking entirely. The amount of blue on the flanks can vary considerably from population to population. The blue may range from robin’s egg, through sky, to deep purplish blue. The white barring in the blue flanks can be even more variable.
Several quite consistent geographic differences can be noted, with the frogs in the northern populations being smaller and less intricately patterned than their counterparts from the south. Typically, northern red-eyes have orange (not blue) thighs and lack the uppermost light stripe that on southern populations isolates the blue bars on the side.