Endangered
Eleutherodactylus minutus
Eleutherodactylus minutus
Eleutherodactylus minutus, also known as the Hispaniolan wheeping frog, is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic, at elevations of 879–2,300 m (2,884–7,546 ft) asl.
The frog
Eleutherodactylus minutus is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
Eleutherodactylus minutus, also known as the Hispaniolan wheeping frog, is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic, at elevations of 879–2,300 m (2,884–7,546 ft) asl. Its natural habitats are mesic upland broadleaf or pine forests. In suitable habitat it is moderately common.
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 caused by agriculture.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Eleutherodactylus minutus 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 minutus, Wikidata item Q512416. 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.
