| Physalaemus fernandezae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Genus: | Physalaemus |
| Species: | P. fernandezae |
| Binomial name | |
| Physalaemus fernandezae (Müller, 1926) | |
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The whistling dwarf frog (Physalaemus fernandezae) is a frog. It lives in Uruguay and Argentina.
This frog lives in grassy places that fill with water for part of the year and in rocky places near rivers. When the weather is dry, the frog hides in leaves or in cracks in the ground. Scientists do not know if it is good at living in places that people have changed. Scientists have seen this frog between 0 and 100 m (0 and 328 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen the frog in protected places: Reserva Natural Punta Lara and Área Protegida con Recursos Manejados Humedales del Santa Lucía.
The two adult frogs make a nest out of bubbles for the eggs.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. The frogs may be in some danger from bad chemicals in the ground and water from farms, towns, and other things that humans do. People also change the places where the frogs live to make farms that grow exactly one plant.
Scientists have seen the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on some of the frogs in Argentina, but they did not see any frogs that had died of the fungal sickness chytridiomycosis.
