Endangered
Hogsback frog
Anhydrophryne rattrayi
Hogsback frog is a frog in the family Pyxicephalidae (order Anura) — Anhydrophryne rattrayi, recorded as Endangered and tied to South Africa.
The frog
Hogsback frog is a frog in the family Pyxicephalidae (order Anura) — Anhydrophryne rattrayi.
Range and habitat
The frog is found in the Amotola (where the type locality, Hogsback is located), Katberg and Keiskammahoek mountains. Its habitat is the floor of forests near the forest edge at an altitude greater than 1100 m. It is particularly associated with the forest–grassland ecotone.
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
Due to its declining natural habitat, the Hogsback frog is currently classified as endangered.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Hogsback 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 Hogsback frog, Wikidata item Q2704336. 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.
