Camouflage, conspicuousness, and inducible color change in a polymorphic, sexually dichromatic frog

Sexual dichromatism is relatively rare in anuran amphibians (frogs and toads) but is striking and prevalent in the African reed frogs (Hyperoliidae). In sexually dichromatic hyperoliids, males and females exhibit shared coloration post-metamorphosis, but at the onset of maturity, females undergo a change in color and/or color pattern, whereas males typically retain the juvenile coloration. Hypothesized functions of dichromatism in reed frogs include sexual niche partitioning such that males and females use different habitats and their different colorations provide more effective camouflage in their respective habitats, or alternatively, that color patterns play a role in sex and/or mate recognition in dense breeding choruses. To test these hypotheses, we characterized several aspects of natural history, ecology, and physiology in a population of the sexually dichromatic forest reed frog (Hyperolius tuberculatus) on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. This dataset includes 1) dorsal reflect..., , # Data from: Camouflage, conspicuousness, and inducible color change in a polymorphic, sexually dichromatic frog

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvwn](10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvwn)

## Description of the data and file structure

Microspectrophotometry of reed frog (*Hyperolius tuberculatus*) photoreceptors, reflectance measurements of reed frogs and the substrates they occur on, and code to conduct visual modeling analyses using the package *pavo* in R. 

### Files and variables

#### File: ReedfrogMSP.zip

**Description:** Microspectrophotometry measurements of rod and cone photoreceptors for one male and one female *Hyperolius tuberculatus*. For detailed methods refer to corresponding publication. Data presented here include 1) a summary of the characteristics of each cell scanned in each individual, and 2) raw and processed data from each scan.

**1. Htuberculatus_msp.csv**

This file contains summary data from each rod and cone scanned in each specimen of *H. tuberculatus* . Each row ...,