| Physalaemus moreirae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Genus: | Physalaemus |
| Species: | P. moreirae |
| Binomial name | |
| Physalaemus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937) | |
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The Sorocaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus moreirae) is a frog. It lives in Brazil.
The adult male frog is 25 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 24.8-28.2 mm long.
This frog lives in swamps inside forests that were never cut down and forests that are growing back. People see it on the dead leaves on the ground and on rocks near water. This frog can use even small bodies of water. For example, people see it near human boot prints. Scientists have seen this frog between 300 and 500 m (980 and 1,640 ft) above sea level.
Scientists have seen the frog in protected places: Estação Biológica de Boracéia, Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes de Paranapiacaba, Parque das Neblinas, and Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar.
This frog has young in streams and ponds. The adult frog makes a nest out of bubbles for the eggs. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, not small froglets.
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. During the past hundred years, human ebings cut down many trees to get wood to use, but most of that has stopped. There are large pieces of forest still growing. In some places, the frogs may be in some danger from people making towns, small farms, tree farms, places for cows to eat grass and tree farms.
