Endangered
Afrixalus clarkei
Afrixalus clarkei
Afrixalus clarkei is a frog in the family Hyperoliidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 20–23 mm (0.8–0.9 in) and adult females 23–24 mm (0.9–0.9 in) in snout–vent length. The head is broad with short snout. Dorsal skin is smooth, but chest and abdomen may be rather coarsely granular.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to southwestern Ethiopia and has been recorded from near Chira, Jimma, Bonga, and Bodare.
It is present in the Kafa Biosphere Reserve.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by selective logging and encroachment of agriculture and human settlements.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Afrixalus clarkei 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 Afrixalus clarkei, Wikidata item Q1942887. 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.
