Female  Uruguay Red-belly Toads are bigger than the males. The female toads measure 22-28 mm while the male toads measure 18-22 mm. Red-belly Toads have a belly that’s “black with red and/or yellow blotches.” “Sexual dimorphism” can’t be found.

 

Red-belly Toads like to live in “tropical or subtropical lowland grassland.” They also like to live in “intermittent freshwater marshes,” farmable land, pastureland, canals and ditches. Uruguay Red-belly Toads are found in Uruguay.

 

The amount of Red-belly Toads are shrinking because their habitats have been lost or changed due to “deforestation, of logging, and habitat fragmentation shrinking.”

 

Also, Melanophryniscus atroluteus looks very similar to Melanophryniscus montevidensis.

 

Author: TJ A

Published: 02/2010

 

Sources:

Melanophryniscus -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. Jan. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanophryniscus

 

Melanophryniscus atroluteus -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. Jan. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanophryniscus_atroluteus

 

Melanophryniscus atroluteus." AmphibiaWeb. Web. Feb. 2010. http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Melanophryniscus&where-species=atroluteus