{"id":401550,"date":"2021-07-20T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=401550"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:09:15","slug":"toads-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/toads-in-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Toads in the mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In well-preserved remnants of the Atlantic Forest, one of them situated in the south of S\u00e3o Paulo, South America\u2019s largest city, a team of zoologists from S\u00e3o Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Esp\u00edrito Santo identified a peculiar new species of toad. Measuring 12 to 15 millimeters in length (the size of a thumbnail), the toadlet <em>Brachycephalus ibitinga\u2014<\/em>a mixture of Greek and Tupi that translates roughly to \u201cshort head from the mist\u201d\u2014varies in color from vibrant yellow to pumpkin orange, and has bone structures in its head and spine that form a kind of dorsal shield, the edges of which are visible through the skin (<em>Herpetology<\/em>, in press). The toadlet lives in an area of Atlantic Forest that stretches over nine municipalities: Bertioga, Paranapiacaba, Santo Andr\u00e9, S\u00e3o Bernardo, Cubat\u00e3o, S\u00e3o Vicente, Itanha\u00e9m, Juquitiba, and S\u00e3o Paulo. In the capital, it was found in the Varginha Municipal Natural Park, near the Billings Reservoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In well-preserved remnants of the Atlantic Forest, a team of zoologists identified a peculiar new species of toad","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":401918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-401550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402284,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401550\/revisions\/402284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=401550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}