What is Pithecopus centralis?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = VU | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Pithecopus centralis | authority = (Bokermann, 1965) | range_map = |synonyms=*''Phyllomedusa centralis (Bokermann, 1965) *''Pithecopus centralis'' (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} The '''Mato Grasso leaf frog''' (''Pithecopus centralis'') is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Mato Grasso]] in [[Brazil]].<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6| access-date=September 21, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |title=''Pithecopus centralis'' (Bokermann, 1965) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Pithecopus/Pithecopus-azureus}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb|publisher=Amphibiaweb |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/646 |title=''Phyllomedusa centralis'' |access-date=September 21, 2021}}</ref> People have seen it higher than 520 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN>{{IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55846/172194729 |id=species |version=2023-1 |title=''Pithecopus centralis'' |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |author2= Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna |year=2022 |accessdate=January 21, 2024 |page= e.T55846A172194729}}</ref> This frog lives in drier places than other frogs: grasslands with many rocks. The male frogs have been heard calling near streams. This frog lays eggs during the time of year when the weather is drier.<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists think this frog is in some danger of dying out because the place it lives is not very big and because human beings continue to change it in ways that are not good for the frog. For example, the frog is now [[locally extinct|extinct in some parts of Brazil]] because people built an [[reservoir|artificial lake to store drinking water]] and flooded the place where the frogs lived.<ref name=IUCN /> ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Frogs of South America]] {{Taxonbar|from=Q952298}}