Phyllodytes gyrinaethes

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Phyllodytes gyrinaethes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Phyllodytes
Species:
P. gyrinaethes
Binomial name
Phyllodytes gyrinaethes
(Peixoto, Caramaschi, and Freire, 2003)
Synonyms[2]
  • Phyllodytes gyrinaethes Peixoto, Caramaschi, and Freire, 2003

Phyllodytes gyrinaethes is a frog. It lives in Brazil in the state of Alagoas. People have seen it as high as 710 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]

Scientists have seen this frog on the ground and on bromeliad plants. Sometimes the bromeliad plants grow on the ground, and sometimes they grow on trees. This frog is usually between 0.8 and 10.0 meters above the ground. These frogs live on smaller bromeliad plants. Scientists sometimes see more than one adult frog and tadpole on the same bromeliad together.[1]

Scientists have seen this frog in the parts of forests that are still there after the rest of the forest is gone. Scientists say human beings change the places where it lives to build towns, build farms, get wood to build with, and make places for animals to eat grass. Human beings also take away the bromeliad plants that the frogs need.[1]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Phyllodytes gyrinaethes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. 2023: e.T55833A172208965. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T55833A172208965.en. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Phyllodytes gyrinaethes Peixoto, Caramaschi, and Freire, 2003". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  3. "Phyllodytes gyrinaethes". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 27, 2022.