Critically Endangered
Atelopus mucubajiensis
Atelopus mucubajiensis
Atelopus mucubajiensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 30–42 mm (1.2–1.7 in) and adult females 40–44 mm (1.6–1.7 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is not projecting. The dorsal coloration is yellow, brown yellowish, or greenish brown, with irregular brownish spots that sometimes for an "X" pattern.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Mérida Andes of Venezuela.
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
Atelopus mucubajiensis was abundant in the 1970s and 1980s, but declined drastically thereafter. The decline is likely because of chytridiomycosis together with other negative factors: introduced trout, introduced conifers, fires caused by humans, over collection, agriculture and infrastructure development, and pollution.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Atelopus mucubajiensis 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 Atelopus mucubajiensis, Wikidata item Q2245951. 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.
