Paradoxical Frog

Pseudis paradoxa

Summary 2

Pseudis paradoxa, known as the paradoxical frog or shrinking frog, is a species of hylid frog from South America. Its name refers to the very large—up to 25-cm-long—tadpole (typical of the Pseudis genus), which in turn becomes an ordinary-sized frog, only about a quarter of its former length.

Fuentes y créditos

  1. (c) Felipe Gomes, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Pseudis_paradoxa01.jpg
  2. (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudis_paradoxa

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Taxonomy:family Hylidae