Physalaemus orophilus

Physalaemus orophilus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Physalaemus
Species:	P. orophilus
Binomial name
Physalaemus orophilus Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010

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

The adult male frog is about 21.1–24.8 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 25.5–28.1 mm. The adult frog has a black stripe from each eye to the place where the back leg meets the body. There is a white line from the eye to where the front leg meets the body.^[4]

This frog lives in forests that were never cut down and forests that are growing back. Scientists have seen this frog between 800 and 1,300 m (2,600 and 4,300 ft) above sea level.^[1]

There are some protected places near where scientists saw the frog lives: Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural da Serra do Caraça, APA Nova Era, and APA Pedra Gaforina.^[1]

The tadpoles swim on the bottoms of shallow ponds that dry up for part of the year. These ponds have plants in them and are near mountain streams.^[1]

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. In some places, some of the frogs may be in danger when humanbeings change the places where it lives to make farms, tree farms, and places for animals to eat grass. Human beings light fires to change the forest to farmland. In some places, people collect wood to use.^[1]