Phyllodytes amadoi, commonly known as Amado's heart-tongued frog, is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Scientists know it exclusively from the type locality, which is in Bahia, but its range is likely to be much wider.[1][2]
| Phyllodytes amadoi | |
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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. amadoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllodytes amadoi Vörös, Dias, and Solé, 2017
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This frog is small for a species in Phyllodytes. The adult frog measures 15.6–23.0 mm in snout-vent length.[3] The species was named after Jorge Amado, a Brazilian modernist writer who lived in the same area as the type locality and was a lifelong frog enthusiast.[3]
References
edit- ^ Frost, Darrel R. "Phyllodytes amadoi Vörös, Dias, and Solé, 2017". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
- ^ "Phyllodytes amadoi". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b Vörös, Judit; Ribeiro Dias, Iuri; Solé, Mirco (20 October 2017). "A new species of Phyllodytes (Anura: Hylidae) from the Atlantic Rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil". Zootaxa. 4337 (4): 584–594. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4337.4.9. PMID 29245759. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
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