Chamula mountain brook frog

The treefrog

Chamula mountain brook frog is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura) — Duellmanohyla chamulae.

Range and habitat

The Chamula mountain brook frog is known only from the northern side of the Central Highlands of Chiapas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. It inhabits the moist cloud forests at altitudes of over 1,600 m (5,250 ft). The Chamula mountain brook frog is a frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Chiapas, Mexico.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Frogs in the genus Duellmanohyla breed in fast-flowing mountain streams. Egg-laying has not been observed in this and other species in the genus, and it is thought that the females may deposit their eggs on the foliage above the water of swift-flowing mountain streams, the tadpoles then falling into the stream when they hatch.

In crisis

It is threatened by habitat destruction and has been rated as "endangered" by the IUCN.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Chamula mountain brook frog 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 Chamula mountain brook frog, Wikidata item Q910809. 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.