What is Phasmahyla timbo?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image =Phasmahyla timbo (10.3897-zookeys.753.21438) Figure 5 (cropped).jpg | status =LC | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Phasmahyla timbo | authority = (Cruz, Napoli, and Fonseca, 2008) | range_map = |synonyms= | synonyms_ref= }} '''''Phasmahyla timbo''''' is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Brazil]]. Scientists have only seen it in one place: [[Serra do Timbó]].<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6|access-date=October 10, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |title=''Phasmahyla timbo'' Cruz, Napoli, and Fonseca, 2008 |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Phasmahyla/Phasmahyla-timbo}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb|publisher=Amphibiaweb |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/7330 |title=''Phasmahyla timbo'' |access-date=October 10, 2008}}</ref> People have seen it between 800 and 900 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/158478/172240295 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title= ''Phasmahyla timbo'' |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |author2= Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna |year=2023 |accessdate=October 10, 2021 |id= 158478 |page=e.T158478A172240295 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T158478A172240295.en}}</ref> Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place and because the farmers keep trees growing to make shade for [[cacao]] cabrucas plants. It lives in forests. The female frog lays eggs on leaves that grow over water. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water below.<ref name=IUCN /> This frog can make useful chemicals in its skin, but scientists do not think anyone is catching the frog to get them.<ref name=IUCN /> Some scientists say this is the same frog as ''[[Phasmahyla spectabilis]]''.<ref name=IUCN /> ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} {{commonscat}} [[Category:Frogs of South America]] {{Taxonbar|from=Q3011786}}