Colostethus imbricolus

Range and habitat

This terrestrial frog has been observed near streams in lowland forests and occasionally on banana plantations, always between 200 and 300 meters above sea level. The frog's range includes at least one protected park: One of the places this frog lives is a protected park: Parque Nacional Utría.

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

This species is classified as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The principal threat is habitat loss, specifically deforestation associated with logging, human habitation, and both legal and illegal agriculture. Pollution from these farms also poses a threat.

Scientists note that the fungal disease chytridiomycosis can kill this frog but they do not know if it is responsible for any changes in its population.

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

Colostethus imbricolus 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 Colostethus imbricolus, Wikidata item Q692589. 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.