Endangered
Hosmer's frog
Cophixalus hosmeri
Hosmer's frog is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura) — Cophixalus hosmeri, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
The female has a snout–vent length of 17 mm.
Range and habitat
Also known as the Rattling nursery-frog or Pipping nursery-frog, it is endemic to Queensland, Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It has previously been threatened by habitat loss but is now endangered.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Narrow-mouthed frogs are often sit-and-wait predators of ants and termites. Breeding sites range from foam in a burrow to water held in plants.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
C. Hosmeri was listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2022. As of July 2019, it was classified as critically endangered under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Hosmer's 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 Hosmer's frog, Wikidata item Q2242000. 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.
