Brachycephalus didactylus
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| Brachycephalus didactylus (Izecksohn, 1971) |
The smallest frog in the Southern Hemisphere is the Brazilian Gold Frog, also known as Izecksohn's Toad, Brachycephalus didactylus (formerly Psyllophryne didactyla).
Adult Brazilian Gold Frogs measure to only 9.8 millimeters in body length (with legs drawn in).
The smallest frog of the Northern Hemisphere is the Cuban Eleutherodactylus iberia, which can be two-tenths of a millimeter smaller.
