Critically Endangered
Paula's Viviparous Toad
Nectophrynoides paulae
Paula's Viviparous Toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Nectophrynoides paulae, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Tanzania.
The toad
It was first described by Menegon, Salvavidio, Ngalason ug Simon Loader in 2007.
True toads are stocky amphibians with warty skin and parotoid glands. Breeding is usually explosive and aquatic.
Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania.
GBIF currently lists 14 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. 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.
Paula's Viviparous Toad 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 Paula's Viviparous Toad — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q426503 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
