Insuetophrynus

Appearance

Adult males measure 41–56 mm (1.6–2.2 in) and females 35–53 mm (1.4–2.1 in) in snout–vent length. The head is wider than long, with a broad, rounded snout. The back is reddish brown with some whitish granulations.

The tadpoles can reach 61.00 mm in total length by stage 43.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to Chile and only known from few localities on the Valdivian Coast Range between Chanchán in the Los Ríos Region in the south and Queule (southernmost Araucanía Region) and Colequal Alto in the north. The fourth locality is Mehuín, that is the type locality. The altitudinal range is 50–486 m (164–1,594 ft) asl.

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 species has a small area of distribution (its known range extends only 33 km along the coast) and its habitat is threatened by clear cutting and afforestation.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Insuetophrynus 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 Insuetophrynus, Wikidata item Q304494. 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.