Phyllodytes amadoi

Phyllodytes amadoi, commonly known as Amado's heart-tongued frog, is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Scientists know it exclusively from the type locality, which is in Bahia, but its range is likely to be much wider.^[1][2]

Phyllodytes amadoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Phyllodytes
Species:	P. amadoi
Binomial name
Phyllodytes amadoi Vörös, Dias, and Solé, 2017

This frog is small for a species in Phyllodytes. The adult frog measures 15.6–23.0 mm in snout-vent length.^[3] The species was named after Jorge Amado, a Brazilian modernist writer who lived in the same area as the type locality and was a lifelong frog enthusiast.^[3]