Phasmahyla cruzi
The Phasmahyla cruzi is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in one place: Rio das Pedras Reserve in southeastern Brazil.[2][3] Scientists are not sure whether it belongs in the family Phyllomedisidae or the family Hylidae, subfamily Phyllomedusinae.[3][1]
| Phasmahyla cruzi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Phyllomedusidae |
| Genus: | Phasmahyla |
| Species: | P. cruzi
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| Binomial name | |
| Phasmahyla cruzi Carvalho-e-Silva, Silva, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2009
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  People have seen Phasmahyla cruzi near the Rio das Pedras Reserve in southeastern Brazil | |
Name
changeThe frog is named after Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, a Brazilian amphibian scientist.[4] Scientists say people should call it Mangaratiba tree frog in English.[4][5]
Appearance
changeThe adult male frog is 31–34 mm (1.2–1.3 in) long from nose to rear end and the only adult female frog the scientists found was 42 mm (1.7 in) long. It has a short nose and big eyes that stick out of its head. Its ear disk is large, but a piece of skin covers part of it. There are disks on its toes for climbing. There is no webbed skin on any of its feet. The frog's skin is green in color with purple spots. The belly is light in color. The iris of its eyes is silver-gray in color.[4]
Older tadpoles can be 40–46 mm (1.6–1.8 in) long, with the tail.[4]
Home
changePeople have found these frogs in streams with sand on the bottom. These places were always 200 meters above sea level or higher.[4] This frog can only live in forests in which the branches come together like a roof.[1]
Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place.[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Phasmahyla cruzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T78533377A86254574. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T78533377A86254574.en. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ↑ "Phasmahyla cruzi Carvalho-e-Silva, Silva, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2009". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Phasmahyla cruzi". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 de Carvalho-e-Silva, Ana Maria Paulino Telles; da Silva, Guilherme Ramos & de Carvalho-e-Silva, Sergio Potsch (2009). "A new species of Phasmahyla Cruz, 1990 from the Atlantic Forest in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Amphibia, Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae)". Zootaxa. 2120 (1): 15–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2120.1.3.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
