Pipa Pipa

The Surinam toad is a fully aquatic frog in the family Pipidae, found across tropical South America and Trinidad, with an unusually flat body resembling a mottled brown leaf and a broad triangular head with no tongue. It has star-shaped appendages on its front toes and captures prey by suction feeding while lying motionless in warm, acidic, murky, slow-moving or still water such as streams, backwaters, ponds and seasonal pools in tropical rainforest. Females are known for carrying their eggs on their backs in honeycomb-like pockets in their own skin, releasing fully formed froglets after four to five months.