Endangered
Anodonthyla pollicaris
Anodonthyla pollicaris
Anodonthyla pollicaris is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The narrow-mouthed frog
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 frog is endemic to Madagascar.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is Anevoka in eastern Madagascar.
GBIF currently lists 22 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.
Anodonthyla pollicaris 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 pollicaris — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2852048 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.
