Anomaloglossus apiau

Anomaloglossus apiau
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Aromobatidae
Genus: Anomaloglossus
Species:
A. apiau
Binomial name
Anomaloglossus apiau
Fouquet, Souza, Nunes, Kok, Curcio, Carvalho, Grant, and Rodrigues, 2015

Anomaloglossus apiau is a frog. Scientists found it in Brazil.[2][3][1]

Home

This frog lives in forests on mountains. Scientists saw it about between 500 and 1400 meters above sea level. It lives near streams.[2][1]

People have seen this frog in Parque Nacional da Serra da Mocidade.[1]

Young

Scientists think these frogs have young in the same way as other frogs in Anomaloglossus: The female lays eggs on leaves, and the adult frogs carry the tadpoles to water.[1]

Danger

Scientists say this frog is in some danger. People build towns and other places to live in the Serro do Apiau near where the frog lives. Then people collect wood from the forests and sometimes set fires. Climate change could hurt this frog because it lives high up in the hills, so it could not move somewhere else if the weather became too hot or too dry. Scientists also think that the fungal disease chytridiomycosis could kill these frogs.[1]

First paper

  • Fouquet A; Souza SM; Nunes PMS; Kok PJR; Curcio FF; De Carvalho CM; Grant T; Rodrigues MT (2015). "Two new endangered species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromabatidae) from Roraima State, northern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3926: 191–210.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2022). "Aromobates apiau". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T77319783A86256069. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T77319783A86256069.en. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Anomaloglossus apiau Fouquet, Souza, Nunes, Kok, Curcio, Carvalho, Grant, and Rodrigues, 2015". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  3. "Anomaloglossus apiau Fouquet, Souza, Nunes, Kok, Curcio, Carvalho, Grant, and Rodrigues, 2015". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved April 26, 2025.