Endangered
Brachycephalus alipioi
Brachycephalus alipioi
Brachycephalus alipioi is a frog in the family Brachycephalidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
Its body is a uniform orange color, and the eye and a thin line surrounding the eye are black. Its head is wider than it is long with a snout that is semicircular in shape from the dorsal view and is rounded from the lateral view. The nostrils are small and slip shaped, not protuberant and are directed anterolaterally at the end of the snout.
A small, robust species with a SVL of 12.5-16.2 mm.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Atlantic rainforest of the Espírito Santo state of southeastern Brazil. Mites and spiders were found in the stomachs of two of the specimen, although their diet may be more abundant.
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.
Brachycephalus alipioi 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 Brachycephalus alipioi, Wikidata item Q2923283. 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.
