Function: Minimize Heat Gain
Organism common name (Genus species):
The Fringed Leaf Frog Phyllomedusinae Cruziohyla craspedopus; aka; Agalychnis craspedopus Duellman, 1968; Phyllomedusa craspedopus; Funkhouser, 1957

Summary of strategy/mechanism in your own words (short description, 150-200 words maximum, no quotes. This is a simple statement of how the function is achieved and a more detailed description of how the strategy works, providing enough detail for a designer or engineer to understand specific characteristics of how the mechanism works. Include any important context considerations, i.e. scale, abiotic criteria and ranges, etc.): Selective absorption and reflection of specific bands of near infrared radiation is accomplished by structures in frog skin. Specifically, differing slightly by species, and sometimes greatly by Genus, structures …show more content…
callidryas, L. infrafrenata, P. dacnicolor, P. sauvagii and R. malabaricus) in each case exhibited a low reflectance over the visible wavelengths (400- 700nm) with a small increase at the green wave lengths, but then a pronounced increase in reflectance over the near infrared wavelengths (700- 1000nm) (Figs. 1 and 2). In contrast, the non-near infrared reflecting frogs (H. cinerea, 0. septentri onalis and P. leucomystax) had overall greater reflectances in the visible wavelengths but did not exhibit a pronounced increase in reflectance at the visible near infrared boundary. In all cases, the non-near infrared reflecting frogs had lower reflectances in the 700-1000 nm waveband. The flatness of the reflectance response in the non-near infrared reflecting frogs contrasted greatly to that of the near infrared reflecting frogs. In all cases, there was greater similarity in the reflectance spectra of distantly or unrelated near infrared reflecting frog species than there was in the reflectance spectra of those frogs and con-familial non-near infrared reflecting frogs (Fig.