These large frogs earned their English name of "Convict Treefrogs" via their prison-outfit-striped sides.

My Travelogues and Trip Lists page includes a complete list of the herps I saw in the wild on my 2016 MT Amazon Expeditions trip.

The "calcarata" part of this frog's scientific name refers to the prominently pointy heels.

On previous trips I had seen either zero or one of these frogs, but this time I saw a bunch. Here is the first, greeting me on my first night at Santa Cruz Forest Reserve.

I guess these are three males trying to attract females, but I'm not sure.

This one wanted to pose for a close-up, so I obliged.

This is not a graceful pose but hey, it works.

In addition to Boana calcarata, Ecuador also hosts the very similar looking Boana fasciata. But that species is only found in the southern reaches of the country. We saw these much further north than that.