Endangered
Mantidactylus albofrenatus
Mantidactylus albofrenatus
Mantidactylus albofrenatus is a frog in the family Mantellidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
Adult males measure 19–23 mm (0.7–0.9 in) and adult females 25–27 mm (1.0–1.1 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsal colouration is brown, forming a distinct dorsolateral colour border with the dark brown flanks. The throat is dark grey with a distinct pattern of white spots forming a median row.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to eastern Madagascar near An'Ala and Andasibe.
It occurs in the Analamazaotra Special Reserve.
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 a locally abundant species, but it is only from two localities and its population is suspected to be decreasing because of ongoing habitat loss and deterioration.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Mantidactylus albofrenatus 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 Mantidactylus albofrenatus, Wikidata item Q2702307. 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.
