Pithecopus centralis

Pithecopus centralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Pithecopus
Species:
P. centralis
Binomial name
Pithecopus centralis
(Bokermann, 1965)
Synonyms
  • Phyllomedusa centralis (Bokermann, 1965)
  • Pithecopus centralis (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

The Mato Grasso leaf frog (Pithecopus centralis) is a frog that lives in Mato Grasso in Brazil. People have seen it higher than 520 meters above sea level.

This frog lives in drier places than other frogs: grasslands with many rocks. The male frogs have been heard calling near streams. This frog lays eggs during the time of year when the weather is drier.

Scientists think this frog is in some danger of dying out because the place it lives is not very big and because human beings continue to change it in ways that are not good for the frog. For example, the frog is now extinct in some parts of Brazil because people built an artificial lake to store drinking water and flooded the place where the frogs lived.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2022). "Pithecopus centralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Pithecopus centralis (Bokermann, 1965)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Phyllomedusa centralis". AmphibiaWeb. Amphibiaweb. Retrieved September 21, 2021.