Dendropsophus nekronastes
Dendropsophus nekronastes is a frog that lives in South America. Scientists have only seen it in one place, in Brazil 303 meters above sea level.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Dendropsophus |
| Species: | D. nekronastes
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| Dendropsophus nekronastes (Bokermann, 1964)
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The adult male frog is 24.1 to 28.9 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult females frog is 31.8 to 35.4 mm. The frog is brown in color with white or yellow stripes on its head and back. This frog changes color: It is lighter at night.[3]
Scientists saw the frog in bodies of water in places that humans beings had changed, for example cacao farms and places where cows and other animals eat grass. Scientists named this frog nekronastes, which is Greek for "thing that lives in the death-place," because it lives in cemetaries too.[3]
Scientists say this frog is in the same group as Dendropsophus leucophyllatus.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dendropsophus nekronastes (Bokermann, 1964)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
- ↑ "Dendropsophus nekronastes". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Iuri Ribeiro Dias; Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad; Antônio Jorge Suzart Argôlo; Victor Goyannes Dill Orrico (March 8, 2017). "The 100th: An appealing new species of Dendropsophus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) from northeastern Brazil". PLOS ONE. 12 (3): e0171678. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171678. PMC 5342187. PMID 28273092.