Platypelis tsaratananaensis

The narrow-mouthed frog

Platypelis tsaratananaensis is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura) — Cophyla tsaratananaensis.

Range and habitat

The natural Platypelis tsaratananaensis usually lives in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It inhabits tall montane rainforest and bamboo groves, and is probably not found outside mature forest, and is probably restricted to altitudes above 1,100 metres (3,600 ft). It is found almost exclusively found on bamboo, and may benefit from the presence of the Daubentonia madagascariensis (nocturnal lemur) for the creation of holes in the bamboo.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Narrow-mouthed frogs are often sit-and-wait predators of ants and termites. Breeding sites range from foam in a burrow to water held in plants.

Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.

In crisis

It is threatened by habitat loss due to subsistence agriculture, timber extraction, charcoal manufacture, spread of invasive eucalyptus trees, livestock grazing, and expanding human settlements.

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

Platypelis tsaratananaensis 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 Platypelis tsaratananaensis, Wikidata item Q27988374. 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.