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Spix's Saddleback Toad aka Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus ephippium), family Brachycephalidae, endemic to Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil
Poisonous.
This is the most common of the Saddleback Toads, Brachycephalus spp.
As with other Brachycephalus, they lay a few eggs in moist terrestrial locations, and the young live as tadpoles in the eggs, and then hatch out as froglets.
Adults reach a max. snout vent length of up to 19.7 mm (0.78 in).
photographs by Diogo B. Provete and Ariovaldo Giaretta
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Good try, Pumpkin Toadlet!
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please draw a tiny and angry pumpkin toadlet, I think it'd be cute :)
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Amphibiuary Day 29: Leap
A day late because I was both stuck for ideas and unwell yesterday. This morning, my mum told me she dreamt that I had drawn a frog doing a high jump, so thanks to her dreamscape for this one! (it's a pumpkin toadlet because they have a habit of flipping over backwards when they jump because their tiny ear canals mess with their balance!)
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Don’t Brachycephalus ‘pumpkin toadlets’ also have bones that glow under UV? and can’t hear their own calls?
Well yes but so do you. All bones fluoresce under UV. But Brachycephalus, sometimes called ‘saddleback toads’ (though they are not true toads), have a large bony structure dorsally that fluoresces through the thin layer of skin when exposed to a strong UV source.
Indeed, they allegedly cannot hear their own calls. But this is paradoxical, because calling is extremely energetically costly, and it is not clear why animals would evolve to continue to call if the call is falling on deaf ears. Currently advanced hypotheses are very unsatisfactory imho, so I rather think that we are missing a key part of the puzzle.
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Kidnapped frog has been rescued and is currently in recovery
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Amphibuary day 12: tiny! Fun fact about pumpkin toadlets- their body is so small, that keeping balance is very hard for them. Pumpkin toadlets are even bad at jumping! I think they’d be good at pole vaulting, though.
Also, pumpkin toadlets are some of the only amphibians (well, really, animals-) to have bones that fluoresce under black light. I drew this guy at a Halloween party cause’ why not?
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Amphibiuary day 12
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Happy autumn solstice! This pumpkin toadlet is ready to shine 🎃✨🍄
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Rotenberg's Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus rotenbergae), family Brachcephalidae, Atlantic coastal Brazil
Poisonous.
Recently described (2021)
This is a tiny toad with a max. length (SVL) of up to 1.8 cm.
photograph via: Nunes, et al. / PLOS ONE
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The Pumpkin toadlet. Quite an animal.
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what if you made a pumpkin toadlet with some other object for scale? (they’re so tiny)
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Amphibiuary 2024 Day 20: Play
A jam session with Mathias and Larva!
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“Because a cats the only cat who knows where it’s at” 🐈⬛
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A whole bunch of goobs
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