Leptodactylus camaquara

Leptodactylus camaquara
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Leptodactylus
Species:	L. camaquara
Binomial name
Leptodactylus camaquara Sazima and Bokermann, 1978

The Jaboticatubas frog or digger foam frog (Leptodactylus camaquara) is a frog. It lives in Brazil.^[2][3][1]

This frog lives in Cerrado places and in grassy places. Scientists have seen the frog between 1200 and 1650 meters above sea level. Scientists saw the frog in many protected places.^[1]

Scientists have seen the frog in some protected places, for example Parque Estadual do Rio Preto and Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipó. Scientists think it could also live in Parque Nacional Das Sempre Vivas.^[1]

The male frog digs a hole in the ground more than 50 meters from a stream. The female frog lays eggs in a nest made out of bubbles. Sometimes many female frogs put their nests in the same place or next to the same rock. When the rain falls, the foam nests break apart and the tadpoles go to puddles, streams, or marshes. Some scientists think tadpoles can live and grow into frogs even if they never leave the bubble nest.^[1]

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is in a little danger of dying out. Human beings change the places where the frog lives to make farms and places for animals to eat grass. This means there are more fires. Because scientists look for the frog in places that humans have not changed, they do not know if the frog is good at living in places that human beings have changed.^[1]