| Physalaemus centralis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Genus: | Physalaemus |
| Species: | P. centralis |
| Binomial name | |
| Physalaemus centralis Bokermann, 1962 | |
The central dwarf frog (Physalaemus centralis) is a frog. It lives in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
The adult frog is 30 to 40 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back can be gray, cream-white, or red in color. Some frogs have a mark on their backs in the shape of the Greek letter omega. The throat is black in color. The male and female adult frogs do not look different from each other.
The frog lives in pieces of forest and in places without trees in Atlantic forest, Amazon, Pantanal, Cerrado, and Caatinga places. It is not good at living in places that human beings have changed. Scientists have seen this frog between 0 and 1,000 m (0 and 3,281 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen the frog in protected places: Estacion Biologica Beni, Parque Nacional Noel Kempff, Área Natural de Manejo Integrado San Matías, Área de Preservação Ambiental Corumbatai, Botucatu e Tejupa, APA das Nascentes do Rio Vermelho, APA Ilha do Bananal/Cantao, APA Morro da Pedreira, APA Piracicaba Juqueri Mirim Area I, APA Pouso Alto, Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins, Parque Estadual do Jalapao, Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, and Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades.
The adult female frog makes a nest out of bubbles for the eggs. The nest floats on the water or sticks to plants near the water. Flies and fly young try to eat the eggs. The tadpoles live at the bottom of the water.
At one part of its life the tadpole is 20 mm long. It is mostly brown in color with some spots and a see-through tail.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. In some places, the frogs may be in some danger when people change the places where the frogs live to make farms and places to raise cows. Human beings set fires to make these places.
