Blue Mountains tree frog facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Blue Mountains tree frog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Genus:	Ranoidea (genus)
Species:	citropa
Distribution of the Blue Mountains tree frog
Synonyms
Hyla citripoda Péron, 1807 Dendrohyas citropa Tschudi, 1838 Hyla (Dryopsophus) citropa Cochran, 1961 Hyla citropus Krefft, 1863 Hyla genolanensis Cochran, 1961 Litoria citropa Tyler, 1971 Litoria jenolanensis Copland, 1957 Dryopsophus citropa Wells and Wellington, 1985 Dryopsophus jenolanesis Wells and Wellington, 1985 Dryopsophus citropus Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016 Ranoidea citropa Dubois and Frétey, 2016

The Blue Mountains tree frog (Litoria citropa) is a tree frog from Australia. It lives in New South Wales and Victoria.

These frogs can be 7 cm long. They are dark brown and light brown with a dark stripe over the eye going down the body. Parts of the legs and middle are bright orange. They have bright green patches of skin on their bodies.

They live in rocky streams in thick forests. They like streams with large numbers of plants in them.

They lay eggs 600-950 at a time in pools with slow-moving water. The eggs sink to the bottoms of the pools and stick to the rocks.

Images for kids

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  A green morph of Litoria citropa

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  Blue Mountains tree frogs in amplexus

See also

In Spanish: Litoria citropa para niños