Physalaemus atim

Physalaemus atim
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Physalaemus
Species:	P. atim
Binomial name
Physalaemus atim Brasileiro and Haddad, 2015

Physalaemus atim is a frog. It lives in Brazil.

Body

The adult male frog is about 28.2 - 30.1 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 26.0 - 30.5 mm. The skin of the frog's back is brown with darker brown marks. There are black stripes on the sides of the body and dark brown stripes on all four legs. All four feet are white in color. There are light marks on the chest. Male frogs have dark-colored throats and female frogs do not.

Name

Scientists named the frog atim because it means "big nose" in the Tupi language. The Tupi are people who have lived in the place where the frog lives for a long time.

Home

This frog lives in forests and grassy places in Brazil's Cerrado places and in places where animals eat grass.

Scientists have seen the frog in some protected places Reserva Ecológica da Universidade Estadual de Goiás and Parque Estadual Altamiro de Moura Pacheco.

Young

This frog lays eggs when the weather is dry. This frog lays eggs in marshes. The frog lays eggs in nests made out of bubbles that float on the water. The tadpoles swim in the water.

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. Human beings have change the places where it lives but the frog is good at living in changed places. In some places, the frogs may be in some danger when people change pasture and other farms into farms that only grow soybeans.

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