''Zachaenus parvulus'' (common names: Girard's frog, Rio bug-eyed frog) is a species of
frog in the family
Cycloramphidae
The Cycloramphidae are a family of frogs endemic to southeastern Brazil. This family has seen large changes in its composition. Genera that have at some point been included in the Cycloramphidae are at present placed in the Alsodidae, Hylodidae ...
. It is
endemic to southeastern
Brazil and is known from the eastern
São Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro, and
Espírito Santo states.
[
Its natural habitats primary and secondary forests where it lives in the leaf-litter on the forest floor. It is a common species. Habitat loss might pose some threat to it.]
References
parvulus
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Amphibians of Brazil
Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard
Amphibians described in 1853
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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