What is Pithecopus azureus?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image =Phyllomedusa azurea.jpg | status = DD | status_ref =<ref name=Amph /><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/135966/107296200 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title=Pithecopus azureus |author1=Ariadne Angulo |year=2016 |accessdate=August 31, 2021 |volume= 2016 |page=e.T135966A107296200 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T135966A107296200.en}}</ref> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Pithecopus azureus | authority = (Cope, 1862) | range_map = |synonyms=*''Phyllomedusa azurea'' (Cope, 1862) *''Pithecopus azureus'' (Cope, 1866) *''Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis azurea'' (Mertens, 1926) *''Pithecopus hypochondrialis azureus'' (Lutz, 1966) *''Phyllomedusa azurea'' (Norman, 1994) *''Pithecopus azureus'' (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} '''''Pithecopus azureus''''' is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Brazil]], [[Paraguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], and [[Peru]].<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6 |access-date=August 31, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]]|title=''Pithecopus azureus'' (Cope, 1862) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Pithecopus/Pithecopus-azureus}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb|publisher=Amphibiaweb |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/6800 |title=''Phyllomedusa azurea'' |access-date=August 31, 2021 |author=Diogo B. Provete |date=July 17, 2008}}</ref> The adult frog is 31 to 44 mm long [[snout-vent length|from nose to rear end]]. It has large eyes for its head. It does not have much webbing on its front feet. The skin of its back is bright green, but it can change color to brown during the day. Its belly is almost white. There is a green stripe down each side of its back legs. It sometimes has orange and black stripes on its legs too.<ref name=Amph /> This frog is in danger because human beings [[habitat loss|change the places it lives]] into soybean farms and sugar cane farms and by building dams.<ref name=Amph /> =