Endangered
Centrolene ballux
Centrolene ballux
Centrolene ballux is a frog in the family Centrolenidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 19–22 mm (0.75–0.87 in) and females 21–23 mm (0.83–0.91 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsum is dark lime green and has minute pale gold-white flecks, that are most numerous on the hind limbs. The tips of digits are yellowish green.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Centrolene ballux on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
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 an endangered species due to climate change (that changes humidity) and habitat loss, possibly also introduced predatory fish as well as pollution and chytridiomycosis.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Centrolene ballux 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 Centrolene ballux, Wikidata item Q859462. 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.
