Amazon milk frog

Amazing fact

The Amazon milk frog climbs trees using large pads on its toes.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens

Amazon milk frog in its habitat (illustration)

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An illustration based on the real animal.

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The Amazon milk frog climbs trees using large pads on its toes.

SourceSan Francisco Zoo & Gardens — Mission Golden-eyed tree frog

THE REAL WORLD

The real Amazon milk frog

Scientific name: Trachycephalus resinifictrix
Japanese name: ジュウジメドクアマガエル
Group: Amphibians and reptiles

Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Trachycephalus

Facts about the real animal.

It lives in South America.

鳥羽水族館 — ジュウジメドクアマガエル

It gives off a strongly irritating, poisonous liquid from its skin.

鳥羽水族館 — ジュウジメドクアマガエル

How the Amazon milk frog lives

It is mainly active at night. It eats insects such as crickets, moths and beetles. It lives in tropical rainforests and spends most of its time in trees. In the rainy season, it lays eggs in water-filled tree cavities.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens Lincoln Park Zoo

Basic data

Range: South America

鳥羽水族館

Where the Amazon milk frog has been recorded

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesCentral and South America Forests

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names around the world

日本語: ジュウジメドクアマガエル
简体中文: 亚马孙乳蛙
繁體中文: 亞馬遜乳蛙
Español: Rana lechera amazónica
Français: Rainette Kunawalu
Deutsch: Baumhöhlen-Krötenlaubfrosch
Português (Brasil): Rã-de-leite-da-amazônia
Italiano: Rana del latte amazzonica
Русский: Жабовидная квакша

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

鳥羽水族館 — ジュウジメドクアマガエルChecked: 2026-11-04
Lincoln Park Zoo — Amazon Milk FrogChecked: 2026-11-07
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens — Mission Golden-eyed tree frogChecked: 2026-11-07

We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.

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