Endangered
Walkerana phrynoderma
Indirana phrynoderma
Walkerana phrynoderma is a frog endemic to the Anaimalai Hills, of the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu states in southern India.
Appearance
Instead, they move across wet rocks and moss using their tails and their back legs, that grow in at a younger age than those of other tadpoles. Scientists consider climate change a possible threat to this frog through alteration of the monsoon weather patterns that it needs to breed.
Range and habitat
Walkerana phrynoderma is a frog endemic to the Anaimalai Hills, of the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu states in southern India. It is a very rare terrestrial frog species associated with leaf-litter in tropical moist forest. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by subsistence wood collecting.
This species is known from Munnar, Eravikulam National Park, Valparai tea gardens, Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Grass Hills National Park and Palni hills. This range includes some protected parks: Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Eravikulam National Park, and Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
It is nocturnal and terrestrial.
In crisis
It has the status of one of the "Top 100 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered Amphibians." This frog has been observed in the Anamalai Hills and nearby parts of the Cardamom Hills. The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered because of its limited range. Pesticide runoff from nearby farms also poses some threat, as does habitat loss associated with road and infrastructure construction.
Scientists have not observed the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on this frog, but they consider it a possible threat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Walkerana phrynoderma 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 Walkerana phrynoderma, Wikidata item Q2709374. 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.
