Critically Endangered
Geminis' dart frog
Andinobates geminisae
Geminis' dart frog is a frog in the family Dendrobatidae (order Anura) — Andinobates geminisae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
It possesses a rounded, slender snout with outward facing external nares.
Range and habitat
A. Geminisae usually lives in lush rainforest. This animal is endemic to West Central Panama and relatives within the Dendrobatid (poison dart frog) family are similarly found across Panama as well as the Colombian Andes.
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
Limited range, illegitimate pet trading, and loss of natural habitat are the most pertinent threats to the survival of this species. Central Panama, among them the Colón Province in that the Geminis' dart frog lives, is classified as a Threatened Amphibian Landscape according to the IUCN. Even though not extensively researched, this species may be made more vulnerable by the presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the fungus causing chytridiomycosis that has been found in some wild individuals.
Meanwhile, the captive bred population currently under the care of the Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project shows promise of growth. The Geminis' dart frog has been classified as critically endangered by the International Union of Conservation (IUCN) as of June 2018.
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.
Geminis' dart frog is Critically 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 Geminis' dart frog, Wikidata item Q18145974. 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.
