''Atelognathus nitoi'' is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...

in the family

Batrachylidae Batrachylidae is a family of frogs from southern South America (Argentina and Chile). Before being recognized as a family, Batrachylidae was included as a subfamily (Batrachylinae) in the family Ceratophryidae; this is the taxonomy still suggest ...

found in Chile and Argentina. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

s are sub-antarctic forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, sub-antarctic grassland, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

References

nitoi Amphibians of Argentina Amphibians of Chile Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1973 {{hyloidea-stub