Black-spotted Casque-headed Treefrog

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Black-spotted Casque-headed Treefrog
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Trachycephalus
Species: T. nigromaculatus
Binomial name
Trachycephalus nigromaculatus
Tschudi, 1838

The Black-spotted Casque-headed Treefrog (Trachycephalus nigromaculatus) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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