Critically Endangered
Blomberg's toad
Rhaebo blombergi
Blomberg's toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Rhaebo blombergi, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Blomberg's toad is one of the largest toads: males measure 15–17 cm (5.9–6.7 in) and females 17–25 cm (6.7–9.8 in) in snout–to–vent length.
Range and habitat
It is found in rainforests at altitudes between 200 and 650 metres (660 and 2,130 ft) in western Colombia (Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, and Nariño Departments) and northwestern Ecuador (Carchi, Esmeraldas, and Imbabura Provinces).
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 locally common but considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) because of habitat loss and pollution.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Blomberg's toad 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 Blomberg's toad, Wikidata item Q1759940. 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.
