Eleutherodactylus semipalmatus

The frog

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

Range and habitat

It is endemic to Haiti and known from the Massif de la Hotte and Massif de la Selle. Its natural habitat is streams and their vicinity in mesic hardwood forest at elevations of 303–1,697 m (994–5,568 ft) asl. The frog is threatened by habitat loss caused by logging and agriculture.

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

This formerly abundant species had not been reported since 1985 and was thought to be already extinct.

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

Eleutherodactylus semipalmatus is Critically 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 semipalmatus, Wikidata item Q308236. 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.