Help identifying a Blast from the Past?

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A good 16-17 years ago when I was but a wee lad, I'd purchased a treefrog in a Portland, Oregon pet store. They were selling it as a Greenback Treefrog. I had the frog for several years before it perished.

Anyway, curiosity has struck me recently and I've been trying to identify the species, but to no avail. I believe I'd found it in a book once close to 15 years ago, but the memory is fuzzy. From what I remember reading, I believe it may have been a European species. I can tell you the physical appearance was very similar to that of Hylarana erythraea (the Asian or Common Greenback frog), though this frog was definitely a tree frog, as it had adhesive toe pads and spent a great deal of time sleeping on the sides and corners of it's enclosure. If I remember correctly, it was approx. 2-3 inches snout to vent.

Any help on this would be much appreciated. Cheers!
 
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No, nor do I think it's from the Litoria genus. Good guess though.
 
I think I may have identified it as being in the Odorrana genus. Further research may give me the species, but could be hosii, chloronota, livida or morafkai, which are all close in appearance.

I'm heavily leaning toward O. livida or hosii
 
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