Marañón poison frog

Appearance

The adult frog measures about 27–29 mm long in snout-vent length. The skin of the dorsum is black with distinct white polka dots. While the pattern of the dots varies across individuals, there is always a dot under the chin.

Range and habitat

As per the type locality, its natural habitat is primary premontane forest between 600 and 1305 meters above sea level, especially those with plentiful cacti and terrestrial bromeliads. This frog is largely diurnal and tends to be found near the bottoms and tops of cliffs, where they forage for food among the vegetation. It is endemic the Cordillera del Condor, in the upper Marañón River drainage, of Cajamarca Department, Perú.

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 threatened by habitat loss, and is currently listed as endangered by the IUCN.

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Marañón poison 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 Marañón poison frog, Wikidata item Q1383524. 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.