Endangered
Anodonthyla jeanbai
Anodonthyla jeanbai
Anodonthyla jeanbai is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
A. Jeanbai can be distinguished from all other Anodonthyla species in numerous ways, among them the presence of a yellowish colouration located on the ventral surfaces, that in some specimens, completely extends over the venter. This species has a dorsum and posterior part of head that is nearly uniformly brown in colour. The anterior head is a somewhat lighter shade of brown.
Range and habitat
The species has been found only at a single surveyed site at a relatively high elevation in the Andohahela National Park, that is located at the southern end of Madagascar, in the province of Toliara. This species can be found at higher elevations, in forests with a high bamboo density. It is found only in a small higher-elevation area in Madagascar.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Narrow-mouthed frogs are often sit-and-wait predators of ants and termites. Breeding sites range from foam in a burrow to water held in plants.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Anodonthyla jeanbai 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 Anodonthyla jeanbai, Wikidata item Q1767353. 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.
