Craugastor sandersoni

The rainfrog

These New World rainfrogs typically skip a free-swimming tadpole: eggs are laid on land and froglets hatch directly.

Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.

Range and habitat

It is found in Belize and eastern Guatemala, in the Maya Mountains, Sierra de Santa Cruz, Sierra del Mico and the eastern part of the Sierra de las Minas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and wetlands, from sea level to 1,160 m asl. 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

Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.

Craugastor sandersoni 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 Craugastor sandersoni — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3002334. 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.