What is Callimedusa baltea?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = EN | status_ref =<ref name=Amph /><ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Callimedusa baltea | authority = (Duellman and Toft, 1979) | range_map =America Phyllomedusa baltea.jpg |synonyms=*''Phyllomedusa baltea'' (Duellman and Toft, 1979) *''Callimedusa baltea'' (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} The '''purple-sided leaf frog''' (''Calllimedusa baltea'') is a [[frog]] that lives in [[Peru]]. Scientists have seen it between 1280 and 1500 meters above sea level.<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6|access-date=September 27, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |title=''Calllimedusa baltea'' (Duellman and Toft, 1979) |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Callimedusa/Callimedusa-baltea}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb|publisher=Amphibiaweb |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/641 |title=''Calllimedusa baltea'' |access-date=September 27, 2021}}</ref><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55840/89204452 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title=Purple-sided Leaf Frog: ''Callimedusa baltea'' |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |year=2018 |accessdate=September 30, 2021 |id= 55840 |page=e.T55840A89204452 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T55840A89204452.en}}</ref> This frog lives in [[cloud forest]]s. The female frog lays eggs in pools that dry up for part of the year.<ref name=IUCN /> This frog is in danger of dying out because human beings cut down the forests [[logging|to get wood]], [[mining|to dig good rocks out of the ground]], to [[cattle|raise cows]], to [[coca|grow coca plants]], and to grow food to eat. Scientists think some of this even happens in one of the protected parts where the frog lives, [[Reserva Comunal El Sira]]. In other places, the ground is too steep for human beings to cut the trees.<ref name=IUCN /> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q2699706}} [[Category:Frogs of South Ame