Critically Endangered
Atelopus patazensis
Atelopus patazensis
Atelopus patazensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Peru.
Appearance
Atelopus patazensis is a relatively large Atelopus: adult males measure 35–40 mm (1.4–1.6 in) and females 43–49 mm (1.7–1.9 in) in snout–vent length.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Peru and only known from its type locality in Quebrada Los Alisos, near Pataz in the La Libertad Region.
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
In addition to chytridiomycosis, also pollution from mining activities as well as domestic waste are threats to this species.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Atelopus patazensis 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 patazensis, Wikidata item Q2868938. 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.
