The animal belongs to a family of at least 36 pumpkin toadlets, which are named after the popular Halloween squash
found during an extensive research effort across Brazil to find new pumpkin toadlets.
For instance, the new pumpkin toadlet is smaller than other known toadlets, with a more diminutive snout. Other unusual features include black, faded patterns on its skin and a preference for the Atlantic Forest’s higher elevations. “Their communication is essentially visual,” he adds, since the frogs probably communicate by gaping their mouths.
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