Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum - Glass Frog

Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum is also known as Glass Frog or Crystal Frog, and it belongs to the Centrolenidae family. It generally found in Mexico, Ecuador Venezuela, Amazonian, North, Central and South America, and it lives near rapid streams, i.e., both in cleared areas as well as in canopy level of trees, and also refrain from dry areas such as high mountains and coasts.

The diet of this glass frog is not known one, but probably it eats small insects like red worms and spiders. The male frog height or weight is about 19 to 28 mm and large female is about 23 to 32 mm. Glass frog has its body as transparent skin, in which you can see the heart beat and its length is about 1-2 inches.

Glass frogs are generally active at night, which makes them very hard to spot for predators like snakes and large mammals. During the breeding season they live in the rivers and streams, after laying eggs this glass frog will go back to live high up in the canopy level of trees.