Brazilian Gold Frog
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{{Taxobox
| name = Brazilian Gold Frog
| status = LC
| trend = down
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Amphibia]]
| ordo = [[Anura]]
| subordo = [[Neobatrachia]]
| familia = [[Brachycephalidae]]
| genus = ''[[Brachycephalus]]''
| species = '''''B. didactylus'''''
| binomial = ''Brachycephalus didactylus''
| binomial_authority = ([[Eugenio Izecksohn|Izecksohn]], 1971)<ref>{{cite journal | author = Izecksohn, E. | year = 1971 | title = Novo genero e novo especie de Brachycephalidae do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Amphibia: Anura) | journal = Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro Zool. | volume = 280 | pages = 1–12}}</ref>
}}
The '''Brazilian Gold Frog''' (''Brachycephalus didactylus''), also known as '''Izecksohn's Toad''', is the smallest [[frog]] in the Southern Hemisphere. It was previously called ''Psyllophryne didactyla''.
Adult Brazilian Gold Frogs measure to only 9.8 millimeters ({{Fraction|24.7|64}} inches) in body length. Many have a beautiful golden color, for which they are named.
The smallest frogs of the Northern Hemisphere are the [[Cuba]]n ''[[Eleutherodactylus iberia]]'', which can be two-tenths of a millimeter smaller, and ''[[Eleutherodactylus limbatus]]'', of which fully mature adults as small as 8.5 mm have been found.{{Fact|date=June 2007}}
[[Image:FrogchartX y1.png|500px|A relative comparison of some of the world's smallest frogs.]]
==References==
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* {{IUCN2006|assessors=Telles & Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva|year=2004|id=54452|title=Brachycephalus didactylus|downloaded=12 May 2006}} Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is of least concern
[[Category:Saddleback toads]]
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