Pleurodema thaul

Pleurodema thaul
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Genus:	Pleurodema
Species:	P. thaul
Binomial name
Pleurodema thaul (Schneider, 1799)
Synonyms[2]
Rana lutea Molina, 1782 Bufo thaul Schneider, 1799 Rana thaul Daudin, 1802 Cystignathus bibroni Duméril and Bibron, 1841 Pleurodema elegans Bell, 1843 Cystignathus elegans Guichenot, 1848 Pleurodema darwini elegans Günther, 1859 "1858" Pleurodema bibroni Günther, 1859 "1858" Bufo luteus Weyenbergh, 1876 Paludicola frenata Cope, 1890 "1889" Pleurodema andicola Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema andina Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema aspera Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema belli Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema bibroni var. grandis Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema coquimbensis Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema carbonaria Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema glandulosa Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema longipes Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema plebeya Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema phryniscoides Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema pseudophryne Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema verrucosa Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema fusca Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema bibroni var. gracilis Philippi, 1902 Pleurodema frenata Nieden, 1923 Physalaemus coquimbensis Parker, 1927 Pleurodema thaul Donoso-Barros, 1969

The Chile four-eyed frog (Pleurodema thaul) is a frog. It lives in Chile and Argentina.^[2][3][1]

The adult male frog is 50 mm long from nose to rear end and the female frogs are larger. The skin of the frog's back can be yellow, green, or dark green in color. The frogs have brown spots that match on each side. The belly is white in color.^[3]

This frog eats animals with jointed legs, for example spiders and similar animals and flies and similar animals. They also eat some plants.^[3]

This frog lives in Nothofagus forest placess. It can also live in grassy places and towns. People find adult frogs near plants and under logs and rocks. Scientists have seen it between 0 and 3,000 m (0 and 9,843 ft) above sea level.^[1]

Scientists have seen the frog in protected places.^[1]

This frog can have young in almost any body of water.^[1] The tadpoles are gray in color with spots on the back.^[3]

Scientists from the IUCN say this frog is not in danger of dying out. In some places, some of the frogs are in some danger because of fire, bad chemicals in water from farms and other human things, people changing the places where it lives, and drought.^[1]