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Julianus uruguayus (commonly known as Schmidt's Uruguay tree frog) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
Lysapsus limellum, sometimes known as the Uruguay harlequin frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. [2] Its natural habitats are moist savanna , subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland , rivers , swamps , freshwater lakes , freshwater ...
However, the Argentine horned frog, Ceratophrys ornata, thrives in the savannas of central and northwestern Uruguay. Other notable amphibian species of Uruguay include Pseudis minuta, Boana pulchella, Rhinella achavali, and Rhinella diptycha. Waterlife is also rich, with species such as the tararira (Hoplias malabaricus) or the white-dotted skate.
Image credits: yaboi_toby_toad The wood frog can even live north of the Arctic Circle, surviving for weeks with 65 percent of its body frozen. This fella uses glucose in its blood as a kind of ...
The Montevideo tree frog (Boana pulchella) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in eastern, central, and northern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, south-eastern Paraguay, and Uruguay. [2] It is a common species occurring in open habitats in forests, grasslands, and flooded savannas.
Lysapsus is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in South America east of the Andes. Their common name is harlequin frogs. [1] Many frogs in Lysapsus have a paradoxical life cycle. They are most massive when they are older tadpoles and slightly smaller when they are adult frogs. [2]
Leptodactylus latinasus (common name: oven frog, in Spanish urnero) is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It is found in the Gran Chaco of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay and east and south to southern Brazil and Uruguay. [2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical grasslands near waterbodies. It tolerates ...
Pseudis paradoxa, known as the paradoxical frog or shrinking frog, is a species of hylid frog from South America. [2] Its name refers to the very large—up to 27 cm (11 in) long— tadpole (the world's longest), which in turn "shrinks" during metamorphosis into an ordinary-sized frog, only about a quarter or third of its former length.