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title: "Gemaskerde boomkikker"
description: "Smilisca phaeota — Amfibieën. The New Granada cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), also known as the masked tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/masked-tree-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gemaskerde boomkikker

> Smilisca phaeota — Amfibieën. The New Granada cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), also known as the masked tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

- Scientific name: *Smilisca phaeota*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amfibieën)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren), `urban` (Steden en tuinen)
- iNaturalist observations: 5746
- Wikidata: [Q1136297](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1136297)
- iNaturalist taxon: [24272](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/24272)

## Names

- en: Masked Tree Frog
- de: Costa-Rica-Laubfrosch
- es: Rana arborícola enmascarada
- nl: Gemaskerde boomkikker

## Countries with the most observations

CR (3893), CO (487), EC (410), PA (387), NI (64), HN (13)

## Summary

The New Granada cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca phaeota), also known as the masked tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, ponds, and canals and ditches.
Their nickname of masked tree frog comes from the black or dark colored markings that start at their nose and go back along the face toward…

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

## Photo

![Gemaskerde boomkikker](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/masked-tree-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Quitmeyer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123349240

## Machine access

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