Endangered
Big-eyed Tree Frog
Leptopelis vermiculatus
Big-eyed Tree Frog is a frog in the family Arthroleptidae (order Anura) — Leptopelis vermiculatus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Tanzania.
Appearance
It has two very different colour phases. In one phase, they are a bright green with scattered black specks all over the dorsal surface and the sides are marble with black and white. With some specimens, the end of the tibia to the toes, forearms and upper lip have white blotching outlined with dark green or black.
This species is a medium to large frog ranging from 40 to 85 mm in length.
Range and habitat
Big-eyed Tree Frog, also known as the peacock tree frog, Amani forest treefrog, or vermiculated tree frog, is a frog found in forest areas in Tanzania.
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
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Big-eyed Tree Frog 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 Big-eyed Tree Frog, Wikidata item Q1525786. 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.
