Endangered
Duttaphrynus kotagamai
Duttaphrynus kotagamai
Duttaphrynus kotagamai (Kotagama's dwarf toad) is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Sri Lanka.
Appearance
Habitat loss (small-scale agriculture) and human disturbance (local tourism) are the primary threats to this species. The body is orangish with a pale color on the ventral surface. Side brown patches can be seen on occasion.
A grown male is 33–40 mm in length, while a female reaches 55–63 mm.
Range and habitat
Duttaphrynus kotagamai (Kotagama's dwarf toad) is a toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, moist montane forests, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It is nocturnal, and lives commonly under rocks or decomposed leaves. Its diet consists of termites and grasshoppers.
Its breeding biology has not been recorded, but it presumably takes place in water, probably in streams.
In crisis
It is considered endangered by the IUCN.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Duttaphrynus kotagamai 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 Duttaphrynus kotagamai, Wikidata item Q28031490. 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.
