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title: "Drab Tree Frog"
description: "Smilisca sordida — Płazy. The Veragua cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca sordida) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/drab-tree-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Drab Tree Frog

> Smilisca sordida — Płazy. The Veragua cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca sordida) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

- Scientific name: *Smilisca sordida*
- Category: `amphibians` (Płazy)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki), `urban` (Miasta i ogrody), `jungle` (Dżungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1949
- Wikidata: [Q2710828](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2710828)
- iNaturalist taxon: [24276](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/24276)

## Names

- en: Drab Tree Frog
- es: Rana arborícola parda

## Countries with the most observations

CR (1229), PA (51), NI (5)

## Summary

The Veragua cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca sordida) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, and canals and ditches. Scientists have observed it as high in the hills as 1525 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog measures 36.2 mm long in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 56.3 mm.  The skin of the dorsum is gray-brown in color and the belly…

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

## Photo

![Drab Tree Frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/drab-tree-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Reuven Martin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10093225

## Machine access

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