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title: "Dink-Frosch"
description: "Diasporus diastema — Amphibien. Diasporus diastema is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/tink-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dink-Frosch

> Diasporus diastema — Amphibien. Diasporus diastema is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae.

- Scientific name: *Diasporus diastema*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibien)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald), `jungle` (Dschungel)
- iNaturalist observations: 1975
- Wikidata: [Q1610192](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1610192)
- iNaturalist taxon: [65418](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/65418)

## Names

- en: Tink Frog
- de: Dink-Frosch
- es: Rana de campanilla común
- nl: Common tink frog
- pt: Eleutherodactylus diastema

## Countries with the most observations

CR (903), PA (138), NI (18)

## Summary

Diasporus diastema is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae. Common names include common tink frog or dink frog, supposedly because of the loud metallic "tink" sound that the male frog makes during the night. It is found in Central America, from Honduras through Nicaragua and Costa Rica to Panama. Its natural habitats are tropical humid lowland forests and montane forests, but it can use very disturbed habitats. It is found from sea level to 1,620 m (5,310 ft) elevation.
Its color during daylight hours, when it hides, is grayish brown with spots or bars; when it emerges at night and becomes active, the…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diasporus_diastema

## Photo

![Dink-Frosch](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tink-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Martin Genner · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153649766

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tink-frog?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).