Critically Endangered
Tlaloc's leopard frog
Lithobates tlaloci
Tlaloc's leopard frog, or rana de Tláloc in Spanish, is a frog in the family Ranidae endemic to the Valley of Mexico.
The frog
Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.
Amphibians need damp skin or water at some point in the life cycle. Habitat loss and chytrid fungus sit behind many of the badges in this class.
Range and habitat
Tlaloc's leopard frog, or rana de Tláloc in Spanish, is a frog in the family Ranidae endemic to the Valley of Mexico. Tlaloc's leopard frog inhabits wetland areas in the surroundings of southern Mexico City. Its habitat has disappeared because of rapid urbanization.
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
It is critically endangered.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Tlaloc's leopard frog 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 Tlaloc's leopard frog — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q4677279. 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.
