Endangered
Adenomus kandianus
Adenomus kandianus
Adenomus kandianus (Kandyan dwarf toad) is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Sri Lanka.
Appearance
Adult males measure 30–35 mm (1.2–1.4 in) and adult females 40–45 mm (1.6–1.8 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsum is yellowish brown. The head is more reddish compared to the body. A tiny gold-coloured vertebral stripe is present.
The tadpole has relatively long body (39% of total length). Gosner stage 36 specimen measures 27 mm (1.1 in) in total length.
Range and habitat
Adenomus kandianus is known from montane cloud forests and tropical moist forests in and near hill streams at elevations of 1,100–1,879 m (3,609–6,165 ft) above sea level. Adenomus kandianus (Kandyan dwarf toad) is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Sri Lanka.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Adenomus kandianus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Adenomus kandianus, Wikidata item Q503716. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
