Critically Endangered
Gastrotheca litonedis
Gastrotheca litonedis
Gastrotheca litonedis is a frog in the family Hemiphractidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
The adult male frog measures about 48.9–57.4 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 53.5–62.4 mm. The skin of the dorsum is either all green or all brown as a base color. Some individuals have dark brown marks on their backs.
Range and habitat
It can live in forests and disturbed areas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
This species needs clean water to breed.
In crisis
The IUCN classifies this species as critically endangered. Principal threats are water pollution, largely from agrochemicals, and habitat loss associated with deforestation. Near the frog's home and planted trees from other parts of the world, eucalyptus and needle trees. Scientists detected Batrachocytrium dendrobatidis on this frog and believe chytridiomycosis may have caused significant population declines before 2004, but they do not think it still kills many of these frogs.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Gastrotheca litonedis 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 Gastrotheca litonedis, Wikidata item Q2209584. 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.
