Critically Endangered
Lankanectes pera
Lankanectes pera
Lankanectes pera is a frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Dorsal surface chocolate brown with unequal dark patches and small pale spots. A light-brown bar is present with dark edges on inter-orbital area. There are white tubercles found on throat.
Body length of mature male is 66.0 mm and mature female ranges from 51.0 mm to 55.8 mm.
Range and habitat
It is the second species found within the genus Lankanectes.
The frog species currently resides in the Knuckles Mountain Forest Reserve. This reserve faces threats that include extensive agricultural practices, illegal cardamom plantations, and the restless pollution from pesticide use.
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
There are currently many different threats that concern the corrugated frogs as they are currently critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List. This has caused increasing dry periods that threaten Lankanectes pera the existence and well-being of the species. The corrugated frogs are currently a critically endangered species and due to its specialized habitat, it requires immediate conservation efforts if it is not going to go extinct.
The Knuckles, or the area in that the species is located, is currently a mountain refuge for 8 micro endemic frog species also considered critically endangered or endangered.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Lankanectes pera 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 Lankanectes pera, Wikidata item Q56282446. 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.
