Dendropsophus bromeliaceus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Genus: | Dendropsophus |
Species: | D. bromeliaceus
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Binomial name | |
Dendropsophus bromeliaceus (Ferreira, Faivovich, Beard, and Pombal, 2015)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Teresensis' bromeliad frog (Dendropsophus bromeliaceus) is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in the mountains in the Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi.[1][2]\
The adult male frog is 16.1–18.4 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog is light brown in color with a wide, cream-colored stripe down each side of its body from the eye to where the legs meet the body. There is another stripe in the middle of the back. There is a triangular mark on the face. The hind legs are cream in color and the front legs and belly are gray. The iris of the eye is black in color.[3]
This is the only frog in Dendropsophus whose tadpole swims in rainwater. Instead of laying eggs in a stream or pond, the female finds a place where the leaves of bromeliad plants have formed a bowl with rainwater in it. The tadpoles swim and grow in the water.[3]
Scientists think this frog might be territorial: adult frogs might fight each other for good places to find food and lay eggs. They think the male frogs might help feed and guard the tadpoles.[3]
Scientists named this frog Teresensis meaning "person born in the town of Santa Teresa." They gave it the scientific name bromeliaeus' after the bromeliad plants where it lays its eggs.