Photo of the Month April 2010 (CLOSED)

[Bellerophon]

Nice one Paul! Here's another Agalychnis for ya.
annae of course

[Paul Rust]

That is awesome Lee. The more we make, the better off they will be. I like to see them in that position. That didn't sound good did it? Do you breed these also?

[Bellerophon]

we're all fans of frog porn here, you can admit it
I'm attempting to get my 3.4 group going, no real success yet.

[Kurt]

Agalychnis annae, I am feeling quite a bit envious. All I have is callidryas, but on the plus side, I have sucessfully bred them.

[Paul Rust]

Agalychnis annae, I am feeling quite a bit envious. All I have is callidryas, but on the plus side, I have sucessfully bred them.

All Agalychnis are in trouble. annae, callidryas, moreletii, etc. They are all beautiful and the more we can breed, the more pressure we can take off of wild populations. Hopefully they will all be incuded as proposed at the convention of CITES starting on Monday.

[Kurt]

Are you sure callidryas is in trouble? Everything that I have read, leads me to believe this is not the case.

Here is the IUCN Red List status for all Agaychnis (& former Agalychnis) species
Agalychnis callidryas, red-eyed leaf frog LC
Agalychnis saltator, parachuting red-eyed leaf frog LC
Agalychnis spurrelli, gliding leaf frogLC
Cruziohyla calcarifer, splendid leaf frog LC
Cruziohyla craspedopus, Amazon leaf frog LC
Agalychnis litodryas, pink-sided leaf frog VU
Agalychnis annae, blue-sided or yellow-eyed leaf frog EN
Agalychnis moreletii, Morelet's or black-eyed leaf frog CR

[Paul Rust]

Yep. Go to the CITES website and you can read the full proposal which includes the reasoning behind the inclusion of the entire genus Agalychnis. Since callidryus is LC there must be sufficient concern for it's well being to put tight controls into place on it's exportation. At any rate, I hope they are icluded to try and stop poaching as much as possible.

CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA
Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties Doha (Qatar), 13-25 March 2010
CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS FOR AMENDMENT OF APPENDICES I AND II

A. Proposal
Inclusion of the genus Agalychnis in Appendix II in compliance with Article II, paragraph 2 (a), of the text of the Convention, and Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP14) Annex 2 a, paragraph B, for:
Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862)
Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853)
And in compliance with Article II, paragraph 2 (b), of the text of the Convention, and Resolution Conf. 9.24 (Rev. CoP14), Annex 2 b, paragraph A, for:
Agalychnis annae (Duellmann, 1963)
Agalychnis saltator (Taylor, 1955)
Agalychnis spurrelli (Boulenger, 1913)

[Kurt]

Agalychnis callidryas is not in trouble, the convention appears to be trying to prevent them from becoming so.

[Paul Rust]

At least they are trying to do something now instead of trying to bring them back after it's too late.

[John]

Guys, come on, this is the Photo of the Month thread. Please create a discussion thread for Agalychnis if you want to keep talking about them.

[Wambli]

Mike and Kim...

[John]

That female is enormous. Is she really as fat as she looks?

[Wambli]

she is the size of a silver dollar... the little one is the size of your thumb nail. I have two big ones... and the one small one... I thought it was a baby... so you think the big one is a girl... the small one a male. I have not heard any singing from the little one. I got them a year ago from my sisters house in the country... they are all over their hot tub... they hate them... so I took a few home... they are good eaters... and like to play at night... but they pee on you if you try to hold them... so they are mostly look but don't touch frogs... not like my dumpys and red eyes that like getting out for a romp around the TV room.

[John]

I actually don't know what size a silver dollar is, what with not being American :P.

[Kurt]

You know John they're size of small pancakes. LOL

[daziladi]

They have an exquisite beauty, Bellerophon. If I ever reincarnate it had better be as a frog <g>

Nice one Paul! Here's another Agalychnis for ya.
annae of course

[Mcbobs]

When will the voting begin?

-Matt