Critically Endangered
Melanophryniscus admirabilis
Melanophryniscus admirabilis
Melanophryniscus admirabilis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The toad
Melanophryniscus admirabilis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
Melanophryniscus admirabilis is a small, critically endangered toad that is only found in one specific region in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil, along the rocky edges of the Rio Forqueta in Arvorezinha, Rio Grande do Sul.
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
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Melanophryniscus admirabilis is Critically 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 Melanophryniscus admirabilis, Wikidata item Q3304922. 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.
