Hyloscirtus alytolylax

The babbling stream frog, babbling torrenter, or tadapi tree frog (Hyloscirtus alytolylax) is a frog. It lives in Colombia between 500 and 2159 meters above sea level and in Ecuador between 400 and 2000 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is  32.1–37.0 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 37.2–43.9 mm long.  The skin on the frog's back is brown-green, yellow-green, gray-green, or light green in color with yellow stripes.

This frog hides during the day and moves at night.  It can live in secondary forest if the right plants grow there.  Adult frogs sit on plants 0.5 to 4.0 meters above the ground.  Tadpoles and young frogs live in and near streams where the water moves quickly.

The frog's scientific name comes from Greek: "Alytos" means "continuing" and "lylax" means "talks very much." This is because the of frog's call.

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Category:Frogs of South America