Critically Endangered
Craugastor punctariolus
Craugastor punctariolus
Craugastor punctariolus is a rainfrog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The rainfrog
Craugastor punctariolus is a rainfrog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, and intermittent rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
A study done from 1999 to 2005 showed that Craugastor punctariolus is one of many frog species whose population was decimated by an outbreak of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis among the population.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Craugastor punctariolus 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 punctariolus, Wikidata item Q3002327. 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.
