Mexican leaf frog

Amazing fact

The male Mexican leaf frog gives a quick call that sounds like someone stepping on a balloon.

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Mexican leaf frog in its habitat (illustration)

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The male Mexican leaf frog gives a quick call that sounds like someone stepping on a balloon.

SourceU.S. Geological Survey — Mexican Giant Tree Frog (Agalychnis dacnicolor) - Species Profile

THE REAL WORLD

The real Mexican leaf frog

Scientific name: Agalychnis dacnicolor
Japanese name: メキシコフトアマガエル
Group: Amphibians and reptiles

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

Facts about the real animal.

It is also listed under the scientific name Pachymedusa dacnicolor.

A tree frog found in Mexico and nowhere else.

鳥羽水族館 — メキシコフトアマガエル

The iris around the pupil of its eye is black with fine white speckles.

鳥羽水族館 — メキシコフトアマガエル

How the Mexican leaf frog lives

This tree-dwelling frog is active at night and shelters in rodent burrows or beneath logs and other ground cover by day. Summer rains after the dry season stimulate breeding. It lays its eggs in a jelly-like nest on leaves hanging above water. Newly hatched tadpoles drop into the water below, where they feed and grow.

U.S. Geological Survey

Basic data

Range: Mexico

鳥羽水族館

Where the Mexican leaf 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 livesNorth 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: メキシコフトアマガエル
Español: Rana cara de niño
Deutsch: Colima-Gespenstfrosch
Português (Brasil): Pachymedusa dacnicolor
Tiếng Việt: Pachymedusa dacnicolor
Русский: Толстая 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 — メキシコフトアマガエルChecked: 2026-11-04
U.S. Geological Survey — Mexican Giant Tree Frog (Agalychnis dacnicolor) - Species ProfileChecked: 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.

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