Critically Endangered
Isthmohyla tica
Isthmohyla tica
Isthmohyla tica is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 29–34 mm (1.1–1.3 in) and adult females 34–42 mm (1.3–1.7 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is rounded in profile. The dorsum is mottled with shades of green and brown.
Range and habitat
It is found in the Cordillera de Tilarán, Cordillera Central, and Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and western Panama.
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
Many populations of this species have disappeared (but sometimes rediscovered later) or collapsed.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Isthmohyla tica is Critically 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 Isthmohyla tica, Wikidata item Q2703157. 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.
