Rupirana

Rupirana

Rupirana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae
Genus: Rupirana
Heyer, 1999
Species:
R. cardosoi
Binomial name
Rupirana cardosoi
Heyer [fr], 1999

Rupirana is a group of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae.[2] It is monotypic group. That means there is only one species of frog in it: Rupirana cardosoi.[3][1]

Name

Scientists named this frog cardosoi for Adão José Cardoso, a Brazilian frog scientist.[4]

Home

This frog lives in northern Espinhaço Mountains, in Bahia, Brazil.[2][5] This frog livess next to small streams with white sand on the bottom. This frog lives in high places, between 900 m (3,000 ft) and 1,200 m (3,900 ft) above sea level in Caatinga and campos rupestres places. It lives near grassy plants. Some of these frogs live inside Chapada Diamantina National Park and in Parque Estadual do Morro do Chápeu.[1]

Young

The frog puts its eggs in bodies of water that dry up for part of the year. These places have rocks or sand on the bottom. The female frog has about 120 eggs at a time. The tadpoles swim near the bottom.[1]

Danger

Scientists from the IUCN say the frog is in some danger of dying out. People change the places where the frog lives so that the frog cannot live there any more. For example, people make farms and places for animals to eat grass where the frog lived. Animals can eat grass even in high, rocky places, where the frog would live. People also set fires to change the land, and this kills the frog and spreads to other places, even protected parks. Visitors sometimes hurt the parks.[1]

Climate change can also hurt this frog. This frog needs to live near streams with water in the air. These places can change quickly if the climate changes.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group; Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna (2023). "Rupirana cardosoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T57322A180648808. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T57322A180648808.en. Retrieved January 17, 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Rupirana cardosoi Heyer, 1999". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Rupirana Heyer, 1999". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
  5. ↑ "Leptodactylus avivoca Carvalho, Seger, Magalhães, Lourenço, & Haddad, 2021". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 17, 2026.

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