Endangered
Aglyptodactylus australis
Aglyptodactylus australis
Aglyptodactylus australis is a frog in the family Mantellidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The frog
This species was first described in 2015 and is considered endangered.
Range and habitat
Aglyptodactylus australis has been observed in the plant litter of primary rainforests and bamboo forests. It is endemic to Madagascar.
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.
Aglyptodactylus australis 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 Aglyptodactylus australis, Wikidata item Q21011694. 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.
