Proceratophrys vielliardi

Proceratophrys vielliardi is a frog.  It lives in Brazil.

Body
The adult male frog is 39.1–41.9 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is light bronw in color with some red-brown on the sides of the body and light brown over the eyes and on the back of the head. The belly is light brown in color. There are black-brown and light brown stripes on the legs. The iris of the eye is gold or bronze in color.

Name
Scientists named this frog for bird scientist Dr. Jacques Marie Edme Vielliard, who studied Brazil's birds and other animals, for example frogs.

Home
Scientists saw this frog in the dry grassy places. They found it next to streams. Scientists saw the frog between 930 and 1270 meters above sea level.

Scientists found the frog in three protected parks: Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico Capetinga - Taquara, Parque Estadual da Serra de Caldas Novas, and Parque Estadual de Paracatu.

Young
The male frogs call to the female frogs in summer (November and December).  The female frog lays eggs in streams that dry up for part of the year. She buries them in sand or mud at the bottom. The tadpoles grow in the streams.

Danger
Scientists from the IUCN say the frog is not in danger of dying out. Human beings changed the places where the frog lives by cutting down many trees to make places for cows to eat grass. Since the 1980s, people have changed these grass places to farms for soybeans, sugarcane, and trees from other parts of the world. Farm chemicals can also hurt the frog.

References

Category:Frogs of South America