What is Pseudis platensis?
{{Speciesbox | image = | status = DD | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/135794/4202433 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title= ''Pseudis platensis'' |author1=Ariadne Angulo |year=2008 |accessdate=January 24, 2022 |volume= 2004 |page=e.T135794A4202433 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135794A4202433.en}}</ref> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Pseudis platensis | authority = (Gallardo, 1961) | call= | range_map = |synonyms=*''Pseudis paradoxus platensis'' (Gallardo, 1961) *''Pseudis paradoxus occidentalis'' (Gallardo, 1961) *''Pseudis platensis'' (Aguiar, Bacci, Lima, Rossa-Feres, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2007) | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH />}} '''''Pseudis platensis''''' is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Bolivia]], [[Paraguay]], [[Argentina]], and [[Brazil]].<ref name=AMNH>{{cite journal|access-date=January 24, 2022|publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]]|journal=[[Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference]] |title=''Pseudis platensis'' (Gallardo, 1961) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Pseudis/Pseudis-platensis}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{cite web|work=[[Amphibiaweb]] |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/7364 |title=''Pseudis platensis'' |access-date=January 24, 2022}}</ref> Scientists used to think this was the same frog as ''[[Pseudis paradoxa]]''. They said it was a [[subspecies]]. They called it ''Pseudis paradoxa platensis''. Then, in 2007, scientists looked at the frog's [[gene]]s. The genes of ''Pseudis platensis'' were different enough from ''Pseudis paradoxa'' to say it was its own species.<ref name=Des>{{cite journal|author1=Aguiar O|author2= Bacci M |author3=Lima AP|author4=Rossa-Feres DC |author5=Haddad CFB|author6=Recco-Pimentel SM |date=July 26, 2007|title= Phylogenetic relationships of Pseudis and Lysapsus (Anura, Hylidae, Hylinae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences|journal= Cladistics |volume=23|i