Brazilian Gold Frog

Brazilian Gold Frog

Taxobox
name = Brazilian Gold Frog
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
subordo = Neobatrachia
familia = Brachycephalidae
genus = "Brachycephalus"
species = "B. didactylus"
binomial = "Brachycephalus didactylus"
binomial_authority = (Izecksohn, 1971) [cite journal | author = Izecksohn, E. | year = 1971 | title = Novo genero e novo especie de Brachycephalidae do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Amphibia: Anura) | journal = Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro Zool. | volume = 280 | pages = 1–12]

The Brazilian Gold Frog ("Brachycephalus didactylus"), also known as Izecksohn's Toad, is the smallest frog in the Southern Hemisphere. It was previously called "Psyllophryne didactyla". Adult Brazilian Gold Frogs measure to only 9.8 millimeters (Fraction|24.7|64 inches) in body length. Many have a beautiful golden color, for which they are named.

The smallest frogs of the Northern Hemisphere are the Cuban "Eleutherodactylus iberia", which can be two-tenths of a millimeter smaller, and "Eleutherodactylus limbatus", of which fully mature adults as small as 8.5 mm have been found.Fact|date=June 2007

References

* Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is of least concern


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