Chaunus achalensis

The toad

Chaunus achalensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Rhinella achalensis.

Range and habitat

Chaunus achalensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae that is endemic to northern Argentina (Córdoba and San Luis provinces). Its natural habitats are rocky outcrops in montane grasslands where it reproduces in mountain streams.

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

Chaunus achalensis is threatened by cattle ranching and pollution of water by cattle.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Chaunus achalensis 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 Chaunus achalensis, Wikidata item Q2212858. 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.