Critically Endangered
Cape mountain toad
Capensibufo rosei
Cape mountain toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Capensibufo rosei, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to South Africa.
Appearance
The dorsal surface is variably coloured in shades of grey or brown with a few paler streaks, and is smooth with scattered warts and blister-like ridges. The ventral surface is white with dark blotches, and its posterior part has skin granulations.
Female Cape mountain toads grow to a length around 39 mm (1.5 in), while males are smaller at 28 mm (1.1 in).
Range and habitat
The Cape mountain toad is endemic to parts of the Western Cape province of South Africa, southwest of the Breede River and among them the Cape Peninsula. The Cape mountain toad is found at elevations of between 60 and 1,600 m (200 and 5,250 ft) above sea level, mostly at altitudes above 400 m (1,300 ft). The Cape mountain toad or Rose's mountain toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae.
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.
Cape mountain 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 Cape mountain toad, Wikidata item Q247721. 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.
