Endangered
Leptobrachium boringii
Leptobrachium boringii
Leptobrachium boringii is a frog in the family Megophryidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to China.
The frog
Leptobrachium boringii is a frog in the family Megophryidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to China where it is found in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, grassland, arable land, and rural gardens near rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Male Leptobrachium boringii exhibit conspicuous keratinized nuptial spines that grow on their upper lip during the breeding season—these are the "moustache" and "spines" referred to in its common names.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Leptobrachium boringii 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 Leptobrachium boringii, Wikidata item Q28036831. 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.
