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Crossodactylodes itambe

Crossodactylodes itambe
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Genus: Crossodactylodes
Species:
C. itambe
Binomial name
Crossodactylodes itambe
Barata, Santos, Leite, and Garcia, 2013

Itambe's bromeliad frog (Crossodactylodes itambe) is a frog. It lives in Brazil.[2][3][1]

Body

The adult male frog is about 14.0 - 17.6 mm long in from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 13.5 - 18.0 mm long. It has a flat body and bumpy skin. There is no webbed skin on any of the feet. The skin is brown in color, and it can change from dark brown during the day to light brown with darker marks at night. Some frogs have white spots or rectangles on the back and legs.[3]

Home

This frog lives in bromeliad plants that grow on rocks. Scientists have only seen the frog in the Vriesea medusa bromeliad plant. Scientists saw the frog between 1713 and 2062 meters above sea level. Scientists saw adult frogs in plants lower down on the hills, but they only saw tadpoles very high in the hills.[1]

Scientists saw the frog in a protected park: Parque Estadual do Pico do Itambé.[1]

Young

The Vriesea medusa bromeliad plant can hold a large amount of water. The male frog sits in the water and calls to the female frogs. The female frog lays her eggs on the leaves of the Vriesea medusa bromeliad plant. The tadpoles swim in the water.[3] There are one to eight tadpoles per plant.[1]

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in very big danger of dying out. It lives in a protected park, so human beings do not change its home by cutting down trees any more. But hikers, campers, and other visitors to the frog's home can step on too many plants. Human beings also set fires and take bromeliad plants to use. Another big danger for this frog is climate change because it could change the rain and other water in the air, which the frog needs. Animals that live high in mountains usually climb higher when the climate becomes too warm, and these frogs may not find good places to live there.[3][1]

First paper

  • Barata IM; Santos MTT; Leite FSF; Garcia PCA (2013). "A new species of Crossodactylodes (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil: first record of genus within the Espinhaco Mountain Range". Zootaxa. 3731: 552–560.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Crossodactylodes itambe". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T78458984A86254644. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T78458984A86254644.en. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  2. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Crossodactylodes itambe Barata, Santos, Leite, and Garcia, 2013". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Paola Solis Santana; Marianna Zaragoza; Britney Torres (June 9, 2022). Ann T. Chang (ed.). "Crossodactylodes itambe Barata, Santos, Leite, & Garcia, 2013". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 25, 2025.

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