Description
This attractive, small green or brown stream-breeding frog has a faint orange or creamy eyestripe, with occasional dark flecking and webbed fingers and toes. Adult males are 31-37mm, while females can be larger, growing up to 39mm. Adult males have a creamy colored mental gland on the chin, a pale bluish-green throat and a single gular sac, and no nuptial pads. It can be distinguished from Hyloscirtus palmeri which lack the eyestripe and from Isthmohyla angustilineata that has a stripe continuing to the groin area and no finger webbing.
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