What is Pseudis?
{{italictitle}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Podonectes minutus02.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Pseudis minuta]]'' | taxon = Pseudis | authority = [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830 | type_species = ''[[Pseudis paradoxa|Rana paradoxa]]'' | type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} '''''Pseudis''''' or the '''swimming frogs''' are a [[genus]] of frogs that live in [[South America]]. They are in the family [[Hylidae]].<ref name=frost/> They are important because they have the largest [[tadpole]]s of any frog in the world. The adult frogs are not much bigger than other frogs, but the tadpoles are giant. Human beings hear these frogs more than they see them. This is because the frogs sing loud but [[camouflage|blend into the water and plants]] so they are hard to see. The frogs live in lakes, ponds, [[marsh]]es, and other bodies of waters that have many plants in them. These frogs sit near the top of the water, hiding in the plants or on floating plants. This frog will dive into the water if they see something that looks dangerous to them.<ref name=Halliday2016>{{cite book | author=Halliday, T. | year=2016 | title=The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World | url=https://archive.org/details/bookoffrogslifes0000hall | page=[https://archive.org/details/bookoffrogslifes0000hall/page/320 320] | publisher=University Of Chicago Press | isbn=978-0226184654 }}</ref><ref name=Fabrezi2009>{{cite journal| author1=Fabrezi, M. | author2=S.I. Quinzio | author3=J. Goldberg | year=2009 | title=Giant Tadpole and Delayed Metamorphosis of Pseudis platensis Gallardo, 1961 (Anura, Hylidae) | journal=Journal of Herpetology | volume=43 | issue=2 | pages=228–243 | doi=10.1670/08-028R3.1 | hdl=11336/53231 | s2cid=83912058 }}</ref><ref name=Franklyn2015>Franklyn, D. (2015). {{url|https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/documents/ogatt/Pseudis_paradoxa - Paradoxical