A reluctant new addition

[Kurt]

I received an e-mail from an NEHS member who works at the New England Wildlife Center. The center is basically a hospital for wildlife as well as being an education center. It is the home of the NEHS. It is also home to an excellent herp vet, but that is not the point of this story.
Anyway, in his e-mail he said that the center had received a shipment of lettuce from Florida and in it was a frog that no one could ID. So I called the NEWC and they asked me if I could ID it. So that's where I spent my afternoon today.
Last night I looked at a list of Florida amphibians, both native and introduced, to try and figure out what the possibilities were. Since no one could ID it, I ruled out any Bufonids, Hylids, and Ranids. All three families have representatives here in New England, so I had figured it had be something totally different from anything they usually see. I thought it might be an Eleutherodactylus frog of some sorts, there are two species introduced to Florida, E. coqui and E. planirostris.
Well when I got there, I was a little surprised to see what I saw. I immediately recognized it as a Hylid. It was all brown at the time and looked like some of the Amazonian Hypsiboas frogs I have seen in books, perhaps H. boans. So I thought this might be a cool find, but after looking at the field guide, I came to a more likely candidate, Osteopilus septentrionalis, the Cuban treefrog.
This frog has never struck my fancy and I had no plans ever have one, but they managed to talk me into adopting it. So now I reluctantly have a Cuban treefrog, named Fidel (the vets idea of a name for it). Who knows, maybe next time they need a frog ID, it will be a Hypsiboas punctatus in a fruit shipment from South America. Oh well one can always dream