Endangered
Carrikeri harlequin frog
Atelopus carrikeri
Carrikeri harlequin frog is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Atelopus carrikeri, recorded as Endangered.
The toad
The frog is about 5.0 cm long.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to about 627 km2 (242.1 sq mi) in northern Colombia. Its natural habitats are sub-Andean and Andean cloud forests, and páramo. It is found at elevations between 2,350 and 4,800 m.
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 about 5 cm (2.0 in) long and typically black, though some populations have orange coloration. It is critically endangered because of the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, and habitat destruction due to agriculture. While the frog was common historically, it is currently endangered due to habitat loss from agriculture, climate change, crop fumigation, and, most significantly, the virulent chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
This fungus was predicted to lower the population of the species by over 80%.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Carrikeri harlequin frog 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 Carrikeri harlequin frog, Wikidata item Q2275494. 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.
