Endangered
Craugastor taurus
Craugastor taurus
Craugastor taurus is a rainfrog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Female Craugastor taurus can grow as large as 80 mm (3.1 in) in snout–vent length, whereas males are smaller, up to 42 mm (1.7 in) SVL. Dorsum is bumpy and grey or brown in colour, with darker blotches.
Range and habitat
It is found in the Golfo Dulce region of southern Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama.
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
Outside protected areas, habitat loss remains a threat. Fortunately, in 2014 two populations were reported from Punta Banco (Golfito canton). The species remains absent from the known historic sites.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Craugastor taurus 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 taurus, Wikidata item Q2209427. 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.
