Endangered
Hong Kong Cascade Frog
Amolops hongkongensis
Hong Kong cascade frog or Hong Kong torrent frog is a true frog from southern coastal China, once thought to be endemic to Hong Kong.
Appearance
Both male and female Hong Kong Cascade Frog grow to a snout–vent length of 40 mm (1.6 in). It contains the tarsal fold and has white velvety nuptial pads on the first fingers.
Tadpoles are up to 25 mm (0.98 in) in length.
Range and habitat
In Hong Kong, the species is found in the New Territories and on Hong Kong Island. It was found in rather small streams in Lung Fu Shan. Hong Kong Cascade Frog inhabit forest-fringed, small hill streams, particularly those with cascades.
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
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Hong Kong Cascade Frog 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 Hong Kong Cascade Frog, Wikidata item Q2716158. 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.
