Critically Endangered
Arthroleptella subvoce
Arthroleptella subvoce
Arthroleptella subvoce is a frog in the family Pyxicephalidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to South Africa.
Appearance
Adult males measure 12–13 mm (0.5–0.5 in) and adult females, based on the only female in the type series, 14 mm (0.6 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is bluntly rounded. The dorsum has brown ground colour.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to South Africa and only known from the Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area, Western Cape.
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
While its range falls almost entirely in this protected area, it is threatened by habitat loss and deterioration caused by fires and alien plants. One of the localities is close to human residences, making contamination of water a potential threat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Arthroleptella subvoce 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 Arthroleptella subvoce, Wikidata item Q2245205. 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.
