Endangered
Ameerega boehmei
Ameerega boehmei
Ameerega boehmei is a frog in the family Dendrobatidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Bolivia.
Appearance
Adults measure 19–35 mm (0.7–1.4 in) in snout–vent length. Although the largest specimen was a female, males and females do not differ in size overall. Skin is dorsally slightly granular. The dorsal background color is black.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Chiquitania region in the Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, where it is known from two isolated sandstone massifs, Serranía de Santiago and Serranía de Chochis.
It occurs in Tucavaca Valley Municipal Reserve.
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
This species can be locally abundant, but some populations appear to have declined. It is threatened by fires, that are used for improving and expanding pasture land for cattle.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. 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.
Ameerega boehmei 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 Ameerega boehmei, Wikidata item Q2842532. 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.
