Glass frogs are small, typically arboreal frogs with translucent skin. There are many species, but we only found one on this trip.

The first frog pictured here is an adult female. The second one is an adult male. The male has grabbers on its arms called humeral spines that it uses to, well, grab the female for the purposes of, well, you know.

These frogs were photographed on a herping trip with GreenTracks. Here is a complete list of the species we found on this GreenTracks trip.

We had no shortage of beautiful glass frogs in Mindo, though all of them were the same species. We did see some other species elsewhere in Ecuador later on this trip.

The Esmeralda prosoblepon we saw in Mindo had spots on their legs but not on their bodies. The ones here had no spots at all.

And the ones here had spots on their legs and also on their bodies. Maybe we need a taxonomist to come split these into three separate species? (Just kidding!)