Crossodactylodes septentrionalis

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Phylum:Chordata
Class:Amphibia
Order:Anura
Crossodactylodes septentrionalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Genus: Crossodactylodes
Species:
C. septentrionalis
Binomial name
Crossodactylodes septentrionalis
Teixeira, Recoder, Amaro, Damasceno, Cassimiro, and Rodrigues, 2013

Crossodactylodes septentrionalis is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It lives in Brazil.[2][3][1]

The adult frog measures about 17 mm in snout-vent length. The frog's skin is orange-brown in color with cream-white lines on the sides and a brown mark on the back shaped like the letter X. There are white spots on the back. The upper surfaces of the legs are orange in color. The ventrum is light in color. The iris of the eye is red in color.[4]

Etymology

Scientists named this frog septentrionalis, which is Latin for "of the north." C. septentrionalis lives further north than any other frog in Crossodactylodes.[4]

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