Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
Tailed Frogs are a uniquely strange and ancient frog family. Tails are present only on males (because they're, um, not tails). They live in clear, fast moving mountain streams. I'm incredibly excited to have encountered these amazing animals for the first time in Oregon's Opal Creek wilderness.
Male with tail copulatory organ, but no dark palmar or forearm tubercles. Discovered by lantern walking at night, active in splash-zone of cascading stream during cold, frosty weather.