Critically Endangered
Eupsophus insularis
Eupsophus insularis
Eupsophus insularis is a frog in the family Alsodidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The frog
Eupsophus insularis is a frog in the family Alsodidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
This frog lives in forests with notable humidity. It is endemic to Mocha Island in Chile and the nearby mainland, where found in temperate mixed forest.
Firewood collection is only legal at a few sites on Mocha Island, but the laws have proven difficult to enforce. Scientists note that cats have been introduced to the island, but they have not confirmed whether they affect this frog.
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
The IUCN classifies this frog as critically endangered. The principal threat is habitat loss associated with livestock cultivation and firewood collection.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Eupsophus insularis 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 Eupsophus insularis, Wikidata item Q303643. 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.
