Endangered
Long-toed Tree Frog
Leptopelis xenodactylus
Long-toed Tree Frog is a frog in the family Arthroleptidae (order Anura) — Leptopelis xenodactylus, recorded as Endangered and tied to South Africa.
The frog
Long-toed Tree Frog is a frog in the family Arthroleptidae (order Anura) — Leptopelis xenodactylus.
Range and habitat
The long-toed tree frog is a frog in the family Arthroleptidae found in South Africa and possibly Lesotho. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
This species generally uses semipermanent water, and its eggs are presumably laid in a nest on the ground near water.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Long-toed Tree 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 Long-toed Tree Frog, Wikidata item Q306251. 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.
