Nothophryne broadleyi

The frog

It was monotypic within the genus Nothophryne until four new species were described in 2018.

Range and habitat

Nothophryne broadleyi is endemic to the mountains of southeastern Malawi where the mountains rise abruptly from the surrounding plain. Its altitude range is between about 1,200 and 3,000 m (3,900 and 9,800 ft). It occurs in rocky areas in both montane forest and grassland.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Nothophryne broadleyi breeds on wet rocks beside mountain streams.

In crisis

It is threatened by habitat loss caused by subsistence agriculture and extraction of wood. Also fires and invading exotic pines are threats.

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

Nothophryne broadleyi 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 Nothophryne broadleyi, Wikidata item Q2211254. 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.