Endangered
Mazumbai warty frog
Callulina kisiwamsitu
Mazumbai warty frog is a frog in the family Brevicipitidae (order Anura) — Callulina kisiwamsitu, recorded as Endangered and tied to Tanzania.
Appearance
The skin is densely warted and the colour is a mottling of various shades of brown and black.
Mazumbai warty frog is a small species with an adult length of 30 to 40 millimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in).
Range and habitat
Mazumbai warty frog is endemic to the West Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Much of this area has been deforested and this species is found in the remains of the forested area around Lushoto among them the Mazumbai Forest Reserve, Ambangula Forest Reserve and Shume-Mugambo Forest Reserve. It is found climbing trees and on the ground in damp forests with thick undergrowth.
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 endemic to forests of the West Usambara Mountains of Tanzania where it is threatened by habitat loss.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Mazumbai warty 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 Mazumbai warty frog, Wikidata item Q2241528. 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.
