Endangered
Glandirana susurra
Glandirana susurra
Glandirana susurra is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Japan.
Appearance
Adult males measure 33–44 mm (1.3–1.7 in) and adult females 38–46 mm (1.5–1.8 in) in snout–vent length. Dorsal skin has many dermal ridges of varying size. The dorsum is khaki-colored, whereas the abdomen is almost whitish anteriorly and yellow posteriorly.
Tadpoles of stages 41–42 measure about 23–27 mm (0.9–1.1 in) in body length.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Sado Island, Japan. It is the only endemic amphibian of the island.
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 known from elevations between 11 and 187 m (36 and 614 ft) above sea level. As of late 2019, this species has not been included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Glandirana susurra 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 Glandirana susurra, Wikidata item Q3108497. 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.
