Critically Endangered
Craugastor pozo
Craugastor pozo
Craugastor pozo is a rainfrog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Males measure 37–48 mm (1.5–1.9 in) and females 46–81 mm (1.8–3.2 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsum is brown, typically with a few black streaks or spots associated with the poorly developed parietal and suprascapular ridges. The prefrontal area is pale brown, separated from the back of the head by an interorbital bar.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Mexico and known from the western foothills and highlands of Chiapas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Direct-developing rainfrogs live in wet forest. They do not need a pond, which is why a logged hillside can erase a species.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
This rare species is threatened by habitat loss.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Craugastor pozo 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 Craugastor pozo, Wikidata item Q3002324. 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.
