Adenomera ajurauna
| Adenomera ajurauna | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Genus: | Adenomera |
| Species: | A. ajurauna |
| Binomial name | |
| Adenomera ajurauna (Berneck, Costa, and Garcia, 2008) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Body
This frog is 17.18–19.95 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is brown in color. This frog has a dark brown throat. The iris of the eye is bronze in color. Some frogs are lighter in color than others. Lighter frogs have a mark shaped like a triangle on their faces.[4]
Name
Scientists named this frog ajurauna from the Tupi language's ajura for "throat" and una for "black."[4]
Home
This frog lives in Atlantic forests. People also see it in small pieces of forest and next to eucalyptus tree farms. Scientists have seen this frog between 0 and 700 m (0 and 2,297 ft) meters above sea level.[1]
Scientists have seen these frogs in protected places, for example Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar and Parque Estadual Carlos Botelho.[1]
Young
The male frog sits on the dead leaves on the ground and calls to the female frogs. This frog puts eggs underground, and the tadpoles grow there.[1]
Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. In some places, people build towns where the frog lives.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Adenomera ajurauna". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T158471A18159139. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T158471A18159139.en. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Adenomera ajurauna (Berneck, Costa, and Garcia, 2008)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
- ↑ "Adenomera ajurauna (Berneck, Costa, & Garcia, 2008)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
- 1 2 Berneck BVM; da Costa COR; Garcia PC (2008). "A new species of Leptodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of Sao Paulo State, Brazil". Zootaxa (Full text). 1795: 46–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1795.1.3. Retrieved February 3, 2026.