Anomaloglossus roraima

Range and habitat

It is found on the tepui of southeastern Venezuela and western Guyana. It is expected to be found in the nearby Brazil. It mainly inhabits large bromeliads in tepui scrub and high-tepui meadows at elevations between 1,860–2,700 m (6,100–8,860 ft) asl. The species occurs in Canaima National Park.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.

Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.

In crisis

The population status is thought to be rare and threatened by disturbance by tourists. The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered. Climate change poses some threat to this frog because there are no higher, cooler elevations to that it may migrate.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Anomaloglossus roraima 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 roraima, Wikidata item Q1187423. 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.