Paratelmatobius poecilogaster

The San Andre rapids frog (Paratelmatobius poecilogaster) is a frog.  It lives in Brazil.

Body
This is the largest frog in Paratelmatobius. The adult male frog is 20 to 26 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 25.2 to 30.1 mm long. The skin of the back and legs is brown and green with green spots. Sometimes the spots make a line on the backbone. There are brown lines on the hind legs. There is a pink line from each eye to where the legs meet the body. There is a gray stripe from each eye down the side of the body. There is a dark stripe from the eye to the mouth. The throat is black in the middle and orange on the sides. The belly is orange and red with black and white marks. The bottoms of the front legs are red.

Home
People see this frog on the dead leaves on the ground in rainforests that were never cut down and rainforests that are growing back. Scientists have observed this frog between 500 and 800 meters above sea level.

Scientists saw this frog in a protected place, Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar.

Young
The male frogs go to pools of water that dry up for part of the year and call to the female frogs. The female frogs put eggs, 5-13 at a time on rocks above the pools. The tadpoles hatch and go into the water. The tadpoles can be 25.8 mm long with the tail.

Danger
About half of these frogs live in places where there are many good places for them to live. The IUCN says this frog is not in danger of dying out.  The frogs that live outside the park may be in some danger. People cut down forests to make towns, farms, tree farms, and places for cows to eat grass. Long ago, people cut down many trees to get wood to build with, but they do not do this much now.

References

Category:Frogs of South America