Endangered
Betic midwife toad
Alytes dickhilleni
Betic midwife toad is a frog in the family Alytidae (order Anura) — Alytes dickhilleni, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Betic midwife toad is grey, finely mottled with dark and pale specks. There is a distinctive grey area between the eyes and the parotoid glands are relatively small.
Its length may be about 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) and it has bulging eyes with vertical slit pupils.
Range and habitat
The Betic midwife toad is native to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in south eastern Spain. The population is fragmented as different mountains support separate populations. It is fairly common on Alcaraz, Segura and Cazorla mountains but less common on the drier Filabres, Baza and Gádor peaks.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Betic midwife toad 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 Betic midwife toad, Wikidata item Q250533. 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.
