Pithecopus megacephalus


The large-headed leaf frog (Pithecopus megacephalus) is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have seen it 800 meters above sea level in the Espinaço Mountains.[3][1]

Pithecopus megacephalus
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Pithecopus
Species:
P. megacephalus
Binomial name
Pithecopus megacephalus
(Cope, 1862)
Synonyms[3]
  • Bradymedusa megacephala (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
  • Phyllomedusa megacephala (Brandão, 2002)
  • Pithecopus megacephalus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

First paper

  • Faivovich, JuliáN; Haddad, CéLio F.B.; Garcia, Paulo C.A.; Frost, Darrel R.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Wheeler, Ward C. (2005). "SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE FROG FAMILY HYLIDAE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HYLINAE: PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND TAXONOMIC REVISION". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 294 (1): 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090.

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