Endangered
Amami tip-nosed frog
Odorrana amamiensis
Amami tip-nosed frog is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura) — Odorrana amamiensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Japan.
Appearance
Adult males measure 57–69 mm (2.2–2.7 in) and adult females 76–101 mm (3.0–4.0 in) in snout–vent length. Dorsal ground colour varies from light brown to green.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Amami Islands, a part of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Specifically, it is known from the islands of Amamioshima and Tokunoshima.
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 logging and the construction of roads. Also alteration of rivers, pollution from pesticides, and predation by invasive mongooses are threats.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Amami tip-nosed frog 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 Amami tip-nosed frog, Wikidata item Q258521. 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.
