Endangered
Indirana beddomii
Indirana beddomii
Indirana beddomii is a frog in the family Ranixalidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The head is moderate, and the snout is obtuse, with an obtuse canthus rostralis and a concave loreal region. The nostril is a little nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye. The interorbital space is as broad as the upper eyelid, or a little narrower; the tympanum is distinct, two-thirds of the diameter of the eye. The tibiotarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout or a little beyond.
Their length from snout to vent is about 2.5 in.
Range and habitat
This species is found in the forests of the Western Ghats. This frog lives on the ground near or in riparian habitats in evergreen and mixed evergreen forests between 752 and 1200 meters above sea level. This frog can live in secondary forest but scientists consider it unlikely that it can survive in heavily disturbed habitats.
That range contains at least one protected park, Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary, where approximately 50% of the frogs are estimated to live.
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
The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered because of its small range. Other threats to this frog include road collisions and habitat loss from conversion of forest to agriculture and the building of dams and linear infrastructure. There is small-scale wood collection, but this is only a minor threat.
Scientists also cite climate change as a potential threat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Indirana beddomii 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 Indirana beddomii, Wikidata item Q2709309. 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.
