Odontophrynus maisuma

Odontophrynus maisuma is a frog.  It lives in Brazil and Uruguay.

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Scientists saw the frog at sea level. This frog lives in piles of sand near the ocean.

Scientists saw the frog in some protected places: Parque Nacional Cabo Polonio, Area de manejo de habitats y/o especies Cerro Verde e Islas de la Coronilla and Paisaje Protegido Laguna de Rocha, Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baleia Franca, Estação Ecológica do Taim, Parque Estadual Itapeva, and Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe.

Young
The female frog lays eggs in the mud on the bottoms of ponds. This frog's tadpoles swim in ponds like other frogs' tadpoles do.

Danger
The IUCN says this frog is not in danger of dying out and the government of Uruguay says that it is in a little danger of dying out. Human beings change the places where the frog lives to make towns, and human visitors love to go to beaches next to the ocean. Scientists also found the dangerous fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in tadpoles at Laguna de Rocha, but they do not know if the chytridiomycosis disease kills this frog.

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Category:Frogs of South America