Eleutherodactylus luteolus

The frog

Eleutherodactylus luteolus is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura).

Range and habitat

This species has a restricted range in western Jamaica, ranging from sea level up to 680 m above sea level. This species is an inhabitant of mesic forest on the coast and in the uplands. Although associated with closed-canopy forest, it can tolerate some habitat degradation. Eleutherodactylus luteolus is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to Jamaica.

It occurs in several forest reserves, but these do not guarantee the species' long-term protection, and improved and strengthened management of these existing protected areas is clearly needed.

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

Breeding

Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.

Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.

In crisis

It is threatened by habitat loss. Its population is decreasing. Extensive habitat destruction and deforestation is taking place within its range, caused by agriculture, human settlement and logging.

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

Eleutherodactylus luteolus 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 Eleutherodactylus luteolus, Wikidata item Q3011679. 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.