Critically Endangered
Corroboree frog
Pseudophryne corroboree
Corroboree frog is a frog in the family Myobatrachidae (order Anura) — Pseudophryne corroboree, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
Adult female southern corroboree frogs are 26–31 mm (1.0–1.2 in) long, while males measure 22–29 mm (0.87–1.14 in). Both bear vivid yellow and black stripes across the head, back, and limbs. The body and head are short and wide, the snout has a slight point, and the fingers and toes lack webbing. The northern corroboree frog has narrower and more greenish-yellow striping.
The species was described in 1953 by Fulbright research scholar John A.
Range and habitat
The southern corroboree frog is a Australian ground frog native to southeastern Australia.
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
The species are critically endangered, with the wild population thought to number around 30 individuals. The main threats to the survival of the frogs are thought to be infection with the chytrid fungus and bushfires. Other threats to the southern species include residential and commercial development (among them ski resorts). Climate change (causing drought and fires), and pollution.
Conservationists have stepped up efforts to increase the population of the southern corroboree frog since the 2019–20 bushfires. The southern corroboree frog was considered relatively numerous within its very small distribution in the 1970s, as of June 2004 it had an estimated adult population of 64, but suffered declines of up to 80% over the 10 years up to 1989, at that time it was found only within a fragmented region of less than 10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) within Kosciuszko National Park.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Corroboree frog is Critically 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 Corroboree frog, Wikidata item Q2296149. 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.
