A genus of tropical frogs characterized by very short tails or no visible tail, found in Central and South America.
From Latin 'brevis' meaning 'short' and 'cauda' meaning 'tail,' combining to form the scientific name for these distinctive short-tailed amphibians.
Scientists named this frog genus using a simple formula—Latin for 'short' plus Latin for 'tail'—because the defining feature of these frogs is that they barely have a tail at all compared to their tadpole stage.
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