Lowland tropical bullfrog

Lowland tropical bullfrog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Genus: Leptodactylus
Species:
L. (Lithodytes) andreae
Binomial name
Leptodactylus (Lithodytes) andreae
(Müller, 1923)
Synonyms
  • Leptodactylus andreae (Müller, 1923)
  • Adenomera andreae (Heyer, 1974)
  • Leptodactylus (Lithodytes) andreae (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)

The lowland tropical bullfrog, Göldi's thin-toed frog, or rana dedilarga de Göldi (Leptodactylus andreae) is a frog that lives in South America. It lives in the Amazon Basin, east of the Andes mountains in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, and Suriname.

Appearance

The adult male frog is 1.7 to 2.0 long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 2.0 to 2.2 cm long. This frog has brown skin with dark marks on its back. Some of the frogs have two lighter stripes down their sides. Each frog has white skin on its belly and pink or gray skin on the insides of its legs.

Young

This frog has many young ones when there is a lot of rain. It has the most in December. The male frog digs a small hole in the ground called a burrow. He sings for the females on the ground. The female frog lays about 10 eggs in the burrow, covered in a nest made out of bubbles. The tadpoles live in this foam nest and not in a pond or stream.

Food

This frog looks for food during the day and at night. This frog eats many kinds of insects and other animals with no bones.

Home

This forg lives on the ground in forest that has never been cut down. It lives in forest where the ground does not get too wet. Scientists saw the frog between 0 and 400 m (0 and 1,312 ft) above sea level. Some of these frogs live in protected places.

Threats

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. But people change the places where the frog lives by cutting down forests. This means frogs in one place do not meet frogs that would have been next to them. The dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis can live on these frogs and make them sick with chytridiomycosis, but scientists do not know if the sickness kills these frogs.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Lowland Tropical Bullfrog: Adenomera andreae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T56304A3037679. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T56304A3037679.en. Retrieved January 28, 2026.
  2. ↑ Enrique La Marca; Claudia Azevedo-Ramos; Luis A. Coloma; Santiago Ron (2004). "Lowland Tropical Bullfrog: Adenomera andreae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T56304A11453385. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T56304A11453385.en. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Adenomera andreae (Müller, 1923)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
  4. ↑ Darren Naish (May 16, 2015). "Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends". Scientific American Blogs. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Albertina P. Lima; William E. Magnusson; Marcelo Menin; Luciana K. Erdtmann; Domingos J. Rodrigues; Claudia Keller; Walter Hödl (December 5, 2007). "Adenomera andreae". Amphibiaweb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 25, 2022.