Endangered
Malcolm's Ethiopian toad
Altiphrynoides malcolmi
Malcolm's Ethiopian toad or the Ethiopian mountain toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia.
Appearance
The females reach a snout-to-vent length of 32 mm (1.3 in) and males reach 21 mm (0.8 in) in length. The colour of the upper parts is quite variable with different individuals being greenish-grey, grey, greyish-brown or black. There are dark spots arranged along three longitudinal bands of paler colour, pink, dull red or green.
Range and habitat
Malcolm's Ethiopian toad is endemic to the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia where it is found at elevations of between 3,200 and 4,000 metres (10,500 and 13,100 ft) above sea level. At lower elevations it is found in grassy meadows besides streams but higher up on the mountain plateau it is present in forests composed of Astropanax, Hagenia and Hypericum and also on afromontane moorlands. Malcolm's Ethiopian toad or the Ethiopian mountain toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia.
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 and is listed by the IUCN as being an "endangered species".
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Malcolm's Ethiopian toad 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 Malcolm's Ethiopian toad, Wikidata item Q1941638. 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.
