Physalaemus insperatus

Physalaemus insperatus
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Physalaemus
Species:	P. insperatus
Binomial name
Physalaemus insperatus Cruz, Cassini, and Caramaschi, 2008

Physalaemus insperatus is a frog. It lives in Brazil.^[2][3][1]

Scientists found the frog in exactly one place, a steep place with forest that has never been cut down. They found it in 1951 and have not gone back to look for it since then. Later, other scientists looked at dead frogs that had been put in a museum. So they did not see the frog looking for food or laying its eggs, but they think it lives on the dead leaves on the ground and puts its eggs in pools of water because that is what other frogs in Physalaemus do.^[1]

Scientists found the frog in a protected place, APA Guaratuba.^[1]

Scientists from the IUCN say they do not know if the frog is in danger of dying out. Scientists found the frog on steep hills with forests on them. These forests are not in danger. But if the frogs also live somewhere else, they might be in danger in those places.^[1]

• Cruz CAG; Cassini CS; Caramaschi U (2008). "A new species of the genus Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura, Leiuperidae) from southern Brazil". South American Journal of Herpetology (Abstract). 3 (3): 239–243. doi:10.2994/1808-9798-3.3.239. Retrieved May 24, 2026.