''Nyctimantis pomba'' is a

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 Hylidae, endemic to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place, 233 meters above sea level in the

rainforest Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

. The adult male frog measures 51.6–60.5mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 58.7–62.1mm. The skin of the dorsum and limbs is dark brown with cream-colored reticulation marks. There are cream-colored spots on the ventrum, and the lips are white. There is a cream-colored stripe extending from the snout over eac eye to the axilla. The iris of the eye is red in color. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

references the discovery location near the

Pomba River The Rio Pomba is a river of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro states in southeastern Brazil, one of the principle tributaries of the Paraíba do Sul. Geography The Rio Pomba begins in the city of Barbacena in Minas Gerais and flows south through th ...

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Amphibians described in 2013 Amphibians of Brazil Endemic fauna of Brazil Hylidae {{Hylidae-stub