Specimen of the Hylid Treefrog <i>Aplastodiscus Leucopygius</i> (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Specimen of the Hylid Treefrog <i>Aplastodiscus Leucopygius</i>

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Specimen of the hylid treefrog Aplastodiscus leucopygius. Blue-green proteins accumulate under the skin and give the animals a gradient of colors from cyan to green in different regions of the body.

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Image credit: Andrés E. Brunetti.

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