Stripeless Treefrog

• It can shift in tone between bright green, bluish and yellowish with temperature and humidity.
• Among the small arthropods it hunts, it favours moths and mosquito larvae.
• It differs from its close relative in its dark side stripe, which does not run along the flank but ends at the front legs.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (amphibian)

Habitat and environment

Damp, well-vegetated ground near water in south-western Europe and north-western Africa

Birth weight

Eggs laid in small clumps beside the water

Size at birth

A small larva after hatching, completing metamorphosis in some 3 months

Sexual maturity

Not precisely known (for the sister species Hyla arborea, breeding typically starts in the second or third year)

Gestation / incubation

15 days of larval development after hatching

Litter / clutch size

Several hundred eggs per clutch (800-1,000 according to one source)

Life expectancy in captivity

A documented record of up to 22 years in captivity for the sister species Hyla arborea

Sources consulted: iNaturalist · Picture Nature · Animalia.bio · Wikipedia (Mediterranean tree frog) · Diputación de Málaga · Infoanimales.net · genomics.senescence.info (Hyla arborea comparativo)

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.