Odontophrynus monachus

Odontophrynus monachus is a frog.  It lives in Brazil.

Body
The frog has a small black or black-brown mark on its back shaped like the letter Y. There is red and cream-white color around it. There is a small stripe near the rear end. Some of its glands are red-brown in color with black around them. Other glands and warts are orange or green-brown in color. The sides of the body have red-cream stropes. There are two black stripes on the nose. There are sideways stripes on the legs.  The belly is gray-white in color. The throat is green-brown in color. The iris of the eye is white in color with thin black marks and one black stripe in the middle.

Home
This frog digs in the ground and awake at night.  Scientists saw it in Cerrado places near where the São Francisco River begins. People see it near pools of water that dry up. Scientists saw the frog 1350 meters above sea level. The frogs are good at living in places that human beings have changed.

Scientists saw the frog in one very safe park: Parque Nacional da Serra da Canastra.

Young
This frog has many young at the same time. The tadpoles swim in shallow, rocky stream pools that dry up for part of the year. The water is slow. The tadpoles eat food at the bottom of the pool and on rocks.

Danger
The IUCN says this frog is not in danger of dying out. Most of the frogs live in one place, a protected park. A few live in other places, but they are high and steep, and human beings do not like to build things there. There are a few farms near the edges of these frogs' homes, but scientists do not think the frogs will die out.

References

Category:Frogs of South America