Lesser Snouted Treefrog

Fascinating facts about the Lesser Snouted Treefrog

• It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
• While many frogs stick to a single environment, this species thrives in everything from dry forests and moist savannas to high-altitude shrublands and even human-made ponds, proving it can swap a leaf lounge for a garden water feature without missing a beat.
• Even heavily degraded former forests aren’t a barrier; the frog can colonise cleared land, pasture, and plantations, turning what looks like wasteland into a breeding ground.
• Its diet and breeding spots span natural lakes, intermittent freshwater bodies, and artificial canals, showing a flexibility that lets it ride the seasonal flood cycles of both wild and farmed landscapes.
• It lives in both temperate grasslands and tropical seasonally flooded lowlands.

At a glance

About the Lesser Snouted Treefrog

Scinax nasicus is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and its natural habitats include subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.

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