Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus microcephalus (Boulenger, 1898): distribution extensions

Dendropsophus microcephalus (Boulenger, 1898) is a small frog; males attain a maximum snoutvent length of 27 mm and females 32 mm (Duellman 2001). The main diagnostic characters of this species are: the flat shape of the head with a round and short snout; the eyes with horizontally elliptical pupils (McCranie and Wilson 2002); the thighs uniformly yellow with a brown line; the dorsum either tan-yellow or light yellow with brown, red or tan markings; a narrow brown lateral stripe extending from the nostril to the sacral region or to the groin, bordered above by a narrow white line; the dorsal pattern with either an "X" shape in their backs or two longitudinal bars connected with another across; however, the last character is considered highly erratic, due to interpopulation differences on the species (Duellman 2001).