Amphibia · Anura
Scinax quinquefasciatusFowler, 1913
Fowler's Snouted Treefrog
Photograph by John G. Phillips, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A day-active frog reaching 30 mm snout to vent.
Amphibia › Anura › Hylidae › Scinax
- Grows to
- 30mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives up to
- 3.5years
- Lives
- Aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial
Longer than only 18% of all species in Hylidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 16.5 to 165 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
17 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
2 pairs of these figures disagree
Length snout to vent (adult female mean) is given as 36.6, and Length snout to vent (greatest recorded) as 30 — but an average female cannot be longer than the longest recorded. They come from different sources and both are shown exactly as those sources give them.
Length snout to vent (adult male mean) is given as 32.4, and Length snout to vent (greatest recorded) as 30 — but an average male cannot be longer than the longest recorded. They come from different sources and both are shown exactly as those sources give them.
Standing in the world
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Population trend
- Stable
as reported by the IUCN Red List
The animal itself
- Longest recorded life
- 3.5years
Slavens and Slavens, 1999. Reptiles and Amphibians in Captivity: Breeding - Longevity and Inventory, Slaveware, 400 p.
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recordeddisputed
- 30mm1.25 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female meandisputed
- 36.6mm1.5 in
- Length snout to vent · adult male meandisputed
- 32.4mm1.25 in
snout-to-vent length, as this source reports for Anura
mean adult female snout-to-vent length
mean adult male snout-to-vent length
How it lives
- Eats arthropods
- Unknown
- Eats vertebrates
- Unknown
- Eats plant matter
- Unknown
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial
a blank flag in this source means unrecorded, not absent
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- How the young develop
- Through a larval stage
- Clutches in a year
- 1per year
Naming and history
- Described by
- Fowler
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1913
Keeping one
- Land
- 30 × 15cm
- Water, at least 6 cm deep
- 6 × 3cm
Minimum, and for two animals — which is how the standard states it. Bigger is always better. Around 30 cm tall on average.
The standard gives 10 × 5 body lengths of land and 2 × 1 of water, for two animals.
For each further animal the standard asks for another 6 × 6 cm of land and 3 × 3 cm of water.
Swiss Tierschutzverordnung (TSchV), SR 455.1, Anhang 2, Tabelle 6 — legally binding minimum enclosure sizes for amphibians, given as multiples of total body length and stated for two animals.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length, which for a frog is its body length of 1.25 in (30 mm) — how this is worked out.
Fowler's Snouted Treefrog
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Still living
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — How it hunts
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Average clutch
- — Smallest clutch recorded
- — Largest clutch recorded
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Fangs
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Limbs
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Red List criteria
- — Region
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Suborder
- — Infraorder
- — Subspecies
- — Type locality
- — Habitat
- — Active in
- — Mainland or island
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Highest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Scinax quinquefasciatus. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/scinax-quinquefasciatus
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