Endangered
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
Adult males measure 59–64 mm (2.3–2.5 in) and adult females 62–67 mm (2.4–2.6 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is nearly truncate in lateral view. The tympanum is distinct, and the supratympanic fold is thick, obscuring its posterodorsal edge.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Ecuador and only known from the vicinity of its type locality in the Tapichalaca Biological Reserve, Zamora-Chinchipe Province.
It is named after the type locality, that is a reserve owned by the Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco. Habitat degradation likely occurs outside the reserve.
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
Threats to this species are unknown.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Hyloscirtus tapichalaca 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 Hyloscirtus tapichalaca, Wikidata item Q2706240. 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.
