Endangered
Booroolong frog
Litoria booroolongensis
Booroolong frog is a frog in the family Pelodryadidae (order Anura) — Litoria booroolongensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
The frog
Booroolong frog is a frog in the family Pelodryadidae (order Anura) — Litoria booroolongensis.
Range and habitat
This species is a stream-dwelling frog, occurring in rocky westerly flowing rivers and streams in highland areas on the Great Dividing Range. Their habitat is normally associated with open woodlands, but they can also be found in grassland and temperate forest streams, among them waterfalls. The permanent flow of water is a necessity for the survival of the species, and ephemeral streams are uninhabitable.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The species has a high fecundity and a lengthy breeding period. To attract a mate, individuals leave their daytime sheltering sites to call in more exposed areas alongside the stream, but then often retire back to their original sheltering site.
In crisis
Its status was justified due to a continuous decline in habitat, both in quality and extent, as well as a critically fragmented distribution range and a low number of mature individuals. Declines in population have been the most prevalent within the Northern Tableland region, with the majority of the subpopulations being extirpated entirely. This has caused the Northern population to approach complete regional extinction.
Multiple surveys have also indicated that the Central Tableland population has also faced a dramatic decline. The Southern Tableland region now holds the majority of the subpopulations, most of that face the threat of local extinction, where they reside in 27 different streams.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Booroolong frog 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 Booroolong frog, Wikidata item Q1848426. 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.
