Endangered
Dryophytes suweonensis
Dryophytes suweonensis
Dryophytes suweonensis, the Suweon treefrog or Suwon treefrog, is a frog in the family Hylidae endemic to the Korean Peninsula probably from the Imjin River to the Mangyeong River, south of Iksan.
The treefrog
Dryophytes suweonensis is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
Dryophytes suweonensis, the Suweon treefrog or Suwon treefrog, is a frog in the family Hylidae endemic to the Korean Peninsula probably from the Imjin River to the Mangyeong River, south of Iksan. The natural the species has been generally transformed into rice fields and it usually lives in threatened by habitat loss. The Suweon tree frog and the Japanese tree frog, that is also found in the same region, are the only two hylid species found on the Korean Peninsula.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It has a lifestyle similar to the Japanese tree frog, breeding in rice paddies. The species is not known to breed at any natural site, and microhabitat segregation differentiate them from the Japanese tree frog.
In crisis
Its distribution and population have been assessed to be below 800 individuals and the status of the species has been updated as Endangered by the IUCN. The population size of the species has very strongly declined in population size, similarly to the sister species Dryophytes immaculatus and Dryophytes flaviventris. The Suweon tree frog is listed as an "Endangered category I species" in Korea on basis of its limited distribution range and small population size.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Dryophytes suweonensis 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 Dryophytes suweonensis, Wikidata item Q32290562. 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.
