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Dendropsophus bromeliaceus
Dendropsophus bromeliaceus, or Teresensis' bromeliad frog, is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in the mountains in the Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi.[1][2]\ The adult male frog measures 16.1–18.4 mm long in snout-vent length. The skin of the dorsum is light brown in color with a wide, cream-colored dorsolateral stretching from behind the eye to the inguinal region. There is another stripe in the middle of the back. There is a triangular mark on the face. The hind legs are cream in color and the front legs and belly are gray. The iris of the eye is black in color.[3] This is the only frog in Dendropsophus whose tadpole swims in rainwater. Instead of laying eggs in a stream or pond, the female finds a place where rainwater has collected in the leaves of bromeliad plants.[3] Scientists think this frog might be territorial and that male frogs might be involved in tadpole care.[3] Scientists named this frog Teresensis referring to the demonym for a person born in the municipality of Santa Teresa. They gave it the scientific name bromeliaceus' after the bromeliad plants where it lays its eggs. References
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