Veined tree frog

Common milk frog
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Trachycephalus
Species:	T. venulosus
Binomial name
Trachycephalus venulosus (Laurenti, 1768)
Synonyms
Argenteohyla altamazonica Henle, 1981 Hyla adenoderma B. Lutz, 1968 Hyla macrotis Andersson, 1945 Hyla tibiatrix Laurenti, 1768 Hyla zonata Spix, 1824 Phrynohyas corasterias Shannon & Humphrey, 1957 Phrynohyas ingens Duellman, 1956 Phrynohyas latifasciata Duellman, 1956 Rana venulosa Laurenti, 1768

The veined tree frog or common milk frog (rana lechera común in Spanish), Trachycephalus venulosus, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. This species was previously within the genus Phrynohyas, which was recently synonymized with Trachycephalus .^[1] It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, and ponds.

References

1. (Faivovich, et al., 2005)

• La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Scott, N., Aquino, L., Silvano, D., Coloma, L.A., Ron, S., Faivovich, J., Santos-Barrera, G., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Chaves, G., Wilson, L.D. & Hardy, J. 2004. Trachycephalus venulosus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 July 2007.