Critically Endangered
Agalychnis lemur
Agalychnis lemur
Agalychnis lemur is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and adjacent northwestern Colombia.
Appearance
During the day the lemur leaf frog is a vibrant green but changes to brown at night. This characteristic enhances its ability to camouflage in the day and hunt at night.
Adult females range approximately from 40–45 mm in length by 15–20 mm in width across the abdomen in resting position, while males range from approximately 30–35 mm in length by 10–15 mm in width across the abdomen. Females on average weigh roughly 4 grams, with males weighing only about 2 grams.
Range and habitat
The lemur leaf frog lives in tropical mid-elevation pre-montane rainforest between 440 and 1600 metres ASL. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and adjacent northwestern Colombia.
The in-situ aspect of the project was carried out by the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center, consisting of introducing tadpoles to artificial ponds every year, gradually increasing the wild population of the frogs inside of the reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Details of the specific diet of lemur leaf frogs have not been reported but is primarily a wide variety of insects. The lemur leaf frog participates in "prolonged breeding" that takes place continuously during the rainy seasons, primarily observed during spring or summer.
In crisis
It is classed as Critically Endangered and threatened by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. Although the lemur leaf frog was once considered a common species in Costa Rica it has declined. With more than an 80% decrease in population in a period of 10 years it is now closely being monitored in Panama where it is still abundant in the lower elevations of central and eastern parts of the country.
Even so, there have been no further reports on the populations of these lemur frogs endemic to Columbia. Due to the marked drop in population of the species, it has been listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 2004.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Agalychnis lemur is Critically 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 Agalychnis lemur, Wikidata item Q16487060. 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.
