''Boana bandeirantes'' is a

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...

in the family

Hylidae Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic. Taxonomy and s ...

, endemic to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. Scientists have seen it only over 400 meters above sea level. The adult male frog measures 27.1–29.1 mm in snout-vent length and one adult female frog has been reported to be 31.2 mm long. This frog has some webbing on the forefeet and more on the hind feet. The skin of the dorsum has four light brown stripes with darker brown in between. It has some white color on its face and two dark brown dorsolateral stripes from the snout over the eye down to the groin.

References

Amphibians described in 2013 Frogs of South America

bandeirantes The ''Bandeirantes'' (), literally "flag-carriers", were slavers, explorers, adventurers, and fortune hunters in early Colonial Brazil. They are largely responsible for Brazil's great expansion westward, far beyond the Tordesillas Line of 1494 ...

Amphibians of Brazil Endemic fauna of Brazil {{Hylidae-stub