Endangered
Dattatreya night frog
Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis
Dattatreya night frog is a frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae (order Anura) — Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
This species' head is wider than long. The skin on the dorsum is highly wrinkled with transverse corrugated folds - three discontinuous longitudinal folds, one dorsolaterally and two laterally; the webbing on toes is medium (three-quarters of the length); two yellowish bands occur on the dorsolateral area, prominent from subadult to adult stage; femoral glands are present. The eyes are golden yellow with black rhomboidal pupils. The upper surface of the body is reddish-black to stone black, with two yellow lateral bands.
N. Dattatreyaensis is a medium-sized (about 40 mm) frog active during night.
Introduction The Dattatreya night frog is a frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae first described in the Shola forests around the Dattatreya Peeta in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka.
Range and habitat
The Dattatreya night frog is a frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae first described in the Shola forests around the Dattatreya Peeta in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
This species was found to be feeding majorly on Diptera species followed by Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera as prey.
In crisis
The water source of the Manikyadhara Falls is endangered. Consequently, Dattatreya night frog is assessed as being "endangered".
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Dattatreya night 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 Dattatreya night frog, Wikidata item Q3346620. 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.
