Endangered
Alsodes valdiviensis
Alsodes valdiviensis
Alsodes valdiviensis is a frog in the family Alsodidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Chile.
Appearance
Adult males measure 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 in) and adult females 40–63 mm (1.6–2.5 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is strongly truncated in dorsal profile. Dorsal surfaces and the limbs are light brown with golden tints.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Chile and only known from its type locality, Cerro Mirador in the Cordillera Pelada, Valdivia Province.
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
Alsodes valdiviensis is known from temperate Nothofagus and Fitzroya forests and bogs at 1,100 m (3,600 ft) above sea level. Threats to it are unknown, and it is not known from any protected area.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Alsodes valdiviensis 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 Alsodes valdiviensis, Wikidata item Q247316. 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.
