Critically Endangered
Anodonthyla vallani
Anodonthyla vallani
Anodonthyla vallani is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The narrow-mouthed frog
Anodonthyla vallani is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
This species is only found in high elevation forests of the Ambohitantely Reserve.
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 vallani 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 Anodonthyla vallani, Wikidata item Q936181. 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.
