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Carvalho's Surinam toad

Pipa carvalhoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)

LCLeast Concernfrogs and toads

The carvalho's surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi) is a species in the family Pipidae, order Anura. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Carvalho's Surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi)
Photo: Lucas Grandinetti · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the carvalho's surinam toad

Weight
Not recorded
Length
up to 6.8 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
arthropodssrc for Main food
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
140 – 300src for Young per litter or clutch
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the carvalho's surinam toad live?

Not recorded

What is the carvalho's surinam toad?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Carvalho's Surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi) is a species of frog in the family Pipidae endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, freshwater marshes, ponds, and aquaculture ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.

From the Wikipedia article “Carvalho's Surinam toad” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carvalho%27s_Surinam_toad&oldid=1374740598), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the carvalho's surinam toad endangered?

The carvalho's surinam toad is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the carvalho's surinam toad classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAmphibia
  4. orderAnura
  5. familyPipidae
  6. genusPipa
  7. SpeciesPipa carvalhoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)

Synonyms Hemipipa carvalhoi, Protopipa carvalhoi

Other names and names in other languages (7)
  • pipa CarvalhoovaCzech
  • Mittlere WabenkröteGerman
  • Brasilianische ZwergwabenkröteGerman
  • カルバリョピパJapanese
  • Sapo-de-PeiaPortuguese
  • Pipa-brasileiraPortuguese
  • Пипа КарвальоRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the carvalho's surinam toad

Other species in the same genus Pipa.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the carvalho's surinam toad endangered?

The carvalho's surinam toad is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What does the carvalho's surinam toad eat?

Its recorded main food is arthropods.

What kind of animal is the carvalho's surinam toad?

The carvalho's surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi) belongs to the family Pipidae in the order Anura.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Carvalho's Surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/carvalhos-surinam-toad

MLA

“Carvalho's Surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/carvalhos-surinam-toad.

BibTeX
@misc{carvalhos_surinam_toad_2026,
  title = {Carvalho's Surinam toad (Pipa carvalhoi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/carvalhos-surinam-toad},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}