What is Phrynomedusa vanzolinii?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status =CR | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Phrynomedusa vanzolinii | authority = (Cruz, 1991) | range_map = |synonyms= | synonyms_ref= }} '''Vanzolini's leaf frog''' (''Phrynomedusa vanzolinii'') is a [[frog]] that lives in southeastern [[Brazil]]. Scientists have only seen it in two places: [[Estação Biológica de Boracéia]] and [[Teresópolis]].<ref name=AMNH>{{cite journal|access-date=October 4, 2021 |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]]|journal=[[Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference]] |title=''Phrynomedusa vanzolinii'' Cruz, 1991 |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Phrynomedusa/Phrynomedusa-vanzolinii}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{cite web|publisher=Amphibiaweb |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/637 |title=''Phrynomedusa vanzolinii'' |access-date=October 4, 2021}}</ref> People have seen it between 800 and 1500 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55828/172208520 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title=''Phrynomedusa vanzolinii'' |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |author2= Instituto Boitatá de Etnobiologia e Conservação da Fauna |year=2023 |accessdate=January 28, 2024 |id= 55828 |page=e.T55828A172208520 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T55828A172208520.en}}</ref> This frog lives in forests [[canopy (biology)|where the tree branches come together like a roof]]. People have seen its tadpoles swimming in pools near streams.<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists say all the frogs in this species might be dead now. If any are alive, it is probably very few. Scientists have not seen this frog since the 1980s. They do not know for sure why it died, but it happened about the same time that the fungal disease [[chytridiomycosis]] came to the [[habitat|place where it lives]].<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists say that if anyone sees this frog again, people should make a program to take them out of the fores