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Many-banded tree frog

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ2212979 ↗
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The many-banded tree frog (Boana multifasciata) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, and canals and ditches.

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This entry incorporates text from “Many-banded tree frog” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.