Maracas heart-tongued frog
The Maracas heart-tongued frog (Phyllodytes tuberculosus) is a frog. It lives in the Brazil.[2][3] People have seen this frog between 900 and 1350 meters above sea level.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Phyllodytes |
| Species: | P. tuberculosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllodytes tuberculosus (Bokermann, 1966)
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This frog lives in grassland and forests where there is not too much rain. It sits in bromeliad plants that grow on the rocks on the ground. Its tadpoles swim in water that collects in the bromeliad plants.[1]
Scientists are not sure exactly how much danger this frog is in of dying out. This frog lives in a large area, but it is divided up into smaller areas and because the places the frog lives are still being changed by humans.[1]
Humans change the frog's grasslands and forests into farms, tree farms, and places for animals to eat grass. This means that there is more fire and it is more likely that the bromeliad plants will die.[1]
This frog looks like Phyllodytes luteolus, and people sometimes think one frog is the other.[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Phyllodytes tuberculosus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55837A11377924. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55837A11377924.en. 55837. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Phyllodytes tuberculosus Bokermann, 1966". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
- ↑ "Phyllodytes tuberculosus". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
