Dendropsophus microcephalus ( Cope, 1886 )

Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia & Arroyo, Sandy, 2019, Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia, Check List 15 (3), pp. 387-404 : 396-397

Dendropsophus microcephalus ( Cope, 1886)

Hyla microcephala Cope 1886: 281 .

Dendropsophus microcephalus — Faivovich et al. 2005: 92 .

In this study, males SVL = 19.4–57.3 mm, females SVL

= 54.1–65.1 mm. Color of dorsum yellow and brown, and red or purple markings; a thin brown lateral line from the nostril to the sacrum or groin, bordered by a thin white line. A total of 19 individuals were recorded, and were observed only in the Station 5, between 250 and 350 m, on leaves of vegetation close to water bodies. It is dis- tributed from Southern Mexico to Brazil. In Colombia, it is present in the Magdalena river valley, and savannas of the north of the Orinoco below 1200 m ( Suárez and Alzate Basto 2014).