Endangered
Cardioglossa oreas
Cardioglossa oreas
Cardioglossa oreas is a frog in the family Arthroleptidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Males measure 23–23 mm (0.9–0.9 in) and females 27–30 mm (1.1–1.2 in) in snout–vent length. Furthermore, the characteristic dorsal markings and the white line running under the tympanum are absent.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Cameroon and known from the Western High Plateau between Mount Oku and the Bamboutos Mountains.
It occurs in the Bafut-Ngemba Forest Reserve.
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.
Cardioglossa oreas 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 Cardioglossa oreas, Wikidata item Q2240311. 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.
