Endangered
Eleutherodactylus ruthae
Eleutherodactylus ruthae
Eleutherodactylus ruthae is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The holotype, an adult male, measured 49 mm (1.9 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is distinctly shovel-shaped.
It was described by Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, who named it in honour of his wife, Ruth Crosby Noble. She also first discovered the species.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Hispaniola and known from scattered locations in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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 logging and agriculture. Even so, it has declined even in suitable habitats, and factors such as invasive predators, climate change, and chytridiomycosis might also play a role.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Eleutherodactylus ruthae 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 ruthae, Wikidata item Q3008303. 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.
