Corcovado Nat'l Park  

Osa Peninsula Species List

Below is a list of species encountered on previous trips

(not necessarily complete)

Snakes

• Common Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor)
• Amazon Tree Boa3 (Corallus ruschenbergi)
• Cat-eyed Snake 2 (Leptodeira septentrionalis)
• Leaf Litter Snake (Rabdinia decorata)
• Tropical bird snake1 (Pseustes poecilonotus)
• Blunt headed tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa)
• Racer (Dendrophidion percarinatum)
• Neotropical Racer 2 (Mastigodryas melanolomus)
• Giant Parrot Snake (Leptophis aheatulla)
• False Coral Snake (Erythrolamprus mimus)
• Mussurana (Clelia clelia)
• Terciopelo 2 3 (Bothrops asper)
• Eyelash Viper 2 3 (Bothriechis schlegelii)
• Bi-zonal Coral snake (2) (Micrurus nigrocintus)
• Brown Spotbelly (2)1 (Coniophanes fissidens)

Crocodilians

• American Crocodile2 (Crocodylus acutus)
• Spectacled caiman2 (Caiman crocodylus)

Lizards

• Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
• Black Spiney Tailed Iguana (Ctenosaur similis)
• Helmet-head Iguana (Corytophanes cristatus)
• Four Lined Ameiva (Ameiva quadrilineata)
• Festive Ameiva 2 (Ameiva festiva )
• Giant Ameiva (Amieva leptophrys)
• Brown Basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus)
• Turnip-tailed Gecko2 (Thecadactylus rapicauda)
• Rust Headed Gecko (Gonatodes albigularis)
• Gecko (Sphearodactylus graptolaemus)
• Golfo Dulce anole2 (Norops polylepis)
• Norops limnifrons
• Pug-nosed anole (Norops capito)
• Norops pentiprion
  

Amphibians

• Smokey Jungle Frog (Leptodactylus pentadactylus)
• Rana warszewitschii
• Glass frog (Hyalinabatrachium colymbyphyllum)
• Elutherodactylus noblei
• Masked tree frog (Smilisca phaeota)
• Marine toad (Bufo marinus)
• Milk tree frog (Phrynohyas venulosa)
• Tink frog (Elutherodactylus diastema)
• Red Eyed Tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
• Bransford's Rainforest Frog (Elutherodactylus bransfordi)
• Fitzinger's Rainforest Frog 2 (Elutherodactylus fitzingeri)
• Leopard frog (Leptodactylus bolivianus)
• Golfe Duce Dart frog 2 3 4 5 (Phyllobates vittatus)
• Green and Black dart frog 2 3 4 (Dendrobates auratus)
• Granular dart frog (Dendrobates granuliforous)
• Mud Puddle Frog (Physelaemus pustulosus)
• Hourglass Treefrog (Hyla ebbracata)
• Rocket Frog (Colestethus flotator)
  

Birds

• Hummingbird 2

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Mammals

• Tayra
• Baird's Tapir
• Tamandua 2
• Paca
• Agouti
• Squirrel Monkey
• Spider Monkey
• Capuchin Monkey (2)
• Howler Monkey
• 3-Toed Sloth
• Hoffman's 2-Toed Sloth2
• Brocket Deer
• White-lipped Peccary

Invertebrates

• Scorpion
• Millipede
• Caterpillar

Photo Credits

1. Chuck Annicelli

2. Rudy Edlund

3. Katie Edwards

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