Slope Snouted Glass Frog, Cochranella euknemos
Conservation Status: Decreasing Glass Frogs (family Centrolenidae) are so named due to the translucent skin on their bellies. This allows enough light to pass through the frog to disguise it from predators. The Slope Snouted Glass Frog was one of the Panamanian species rescued in 2005, when the deadly amphibian disease, chytridiomycosis (chytrid) was wiping out as much as 85% of the frogs from that region.


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