Endangered
Horned marsupial frog
Gastrotheca cornuta
Horned marsupial frog is an arboreal species found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama.
Appearance
The head is broad and the snout is rounded when viewed from above. The iris of the eye is bronze with a greenish center and the upper eyelid has a triangular peak. The body color is pale brown at night but dark brown by day and there are pale markings between the mouth and eyes during the day.
Range and habitat
Horned marsupial frog is a nocturnal species and is found in tropical forests and lower montane cloud forests in Limón Province, Costa Rica, and in adjoining areas of Panama on the Atlantic slope at altitudes between 300 and 700 metres (980 and 2,300 ft). In Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama it occurs on the Pacific side of the divide at altitudes between 90 and 1,000 metres (300 and 3,280 ft) above sea level. It lives high in the forest canopy.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The male Horned marsupial frog calls from high in the canopy to attract a mate.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Horned marsupial 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 Horned marsupial frog, Wikidata item Q2691035. 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.
