Endangered
Anomaloglossus kaiei
Anomaloglossus kaiei
Anomaloglossus kaiei is a frog in the family Aromobatidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
A. Kaiei displays cryptic coloration. Their dorsal ground color is medium brown, with a wide black band running laterally from its snout tip around the body and a thin, white, partially-interrupted dorsolateral stripe situated immediately above the black band. The frog's upper lip bar, chin, and flank are a dirty white color, with a few white or light blue dots speckled throughout.
Fingers I and II are equal in length when appressed, and Finger IV reaches the distal subarticular tubercle on Finger III when appressed. Adult males have an average snout-vent length of 18.9 mm (0.74 in) and all fingers are slightly swollen.
Range and habitat
A. Kaiei has only been reported from Guyana in the Kaieteur National Park, but is found throughout the Pakaraima Mountains in the Guiana Shield in South America. This species lives mainly in primary forest but can also tolerate disturbed forest. Their distribution is commonly found at ranges between 150 and 450 m (490 and 1,480 ft) above sea level, but has also been found up to 1,060 m (3,480 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
A. Kaiei tadpoles mainly feed on detritus found in their habitat pools. There is little information currently available on the diet of adult A. Kaiei frogs.
Breeding activity is the most abundant during the rainy season, from May to July. Males were observed making advertisement calls for all studied months from April to August, with calling rates significantly greater in March and April, prior to the peak of breeding season. A. Kaiei are terrestrial breeders, that is the ancestral state in the Aromobatidae family.
In crisis
The most significant threat posed to A. Kaiei and its habitat are gold and diamond mining and quarrying, that occurs within Kaieteur National Park and threatens the ecosystem. The IUCN assessed A. Kaiei last in November 2017 and rates this species as endangered with a stable population trend.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Anomaloglossus kaiei 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 Anomaloglossus kaiei, Wikidata item Q4676943. 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.
