Moramora Climbing Frog

The narrow-mouthed frog

It was first described by Frank Glaw ug Miguel Vences in 2005.

Narrow-mouthed frogs are a worldwide family. Many are small, secretive, and tied to leaf litter or phytotelms rather than open ponds.

Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.

Range and habitat

This species is native to Madagascar.

GBIF currently lists 44 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

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.

Moramora Climbing 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 Moramora Climbing Frog — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2852047 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.