Ololygon alcatraz, commonly called the Alcatraz snouted treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Ilha dos Alcatrazes, an island off the coast of Sao Paulo state, Brazil, so its entire known range is a single island. The frog occurs in primary and secondary forest as well as in degraded forest. It completes its whole life cycle, tadpole stage included, in the cups formed by the leaves of bromeliads. The species was formerly threatened by fires caused by munitions testing carried out by the Brazilian Navy on the island. Those tests have since ceased because of environmental concerns about the island endemic species, but the frog is still considered threatened by the effects of climate change.
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an island off the coast of São Paulo state, Brazil
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Ololygon alcatraz (Wikipedia)
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an island off the coast of São Paulo state, Brazil
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy match: Ololygon alcatraz
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"family": "Hylidae"
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