Critically Endangered
Boophis ankarafensis
Boophis ankarafensis
Boophis ankarafensis is a frog in the family Mantellidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
Boophis ankarafensis are small frogs: adult males measure 23–24 mm (0.91–0.94 in) and female (one specimen) 29 mm (1.1 in) in snout–vent length. The background colour of dorsum and limbs is light green, but the webbing, finger, and toe disks are green-yellow. There are speckles of reddish-brown and yellow pigment covering the dorsum and limbs, and thin yellow dorsolateral stripes running from behind the eye to the forelimb, then fading towards the mid-body.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Madagascar's northwestern coast where it is only known from Ankarafa Forest, a forest fragment in the Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park.
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
Most individuals that have been encountered were males calling along the banks of two streams during nighttime. The species has not yet been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but it is suggested that is should be classified as "Critically Endangered" because the area of occupancy of this species is small (probably less than 10 km²), it is not known from outside the Ankarafa Forest, and this forest fragment is experiencing widespread deforestation.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Boophis ankarafensis 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 Boophis ankarafensis, Wikidata item Q17648802. 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.
