Overview
- The PLOS One paper formally names the species Brachycephalus lulai and describes its bright orange body with small green and brown spots.
- Fieldwork located the leaf‑litter frog in remote montane forest fragments of Santa Catarina’s Serra do Quiriri near Brazil’s Atlantic coast.
- Researchers report males measuring 8.9–11.3 mm and females 11.7–13.4 mm, with 32 specimens collected and 13 calls recorded.
- The authors warn that the species’ micro‑endemic habitat faces pressure from land use and climate change within a fragmented Atlantic Forest.
- They propose establishing a protected area for the region, note that 35 of the genus’s 42 species were described since 2000, and acknowledge the paper’s unusual omission of a formal name etymology.