Endangered
Nymphargus anomalus
Nymphargus anomalus
Nymphargus anomalus is a frog in the family Centrolenidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
The snout is short and truncate. The coloration is tan, that is unusual among the related species—hence the specific name anomala, from Greek "unusual".
Adult males measure 21–25 mm (0.8–1.0 in) and adult females 26–27 mm (1.0–1.1 in) in snoot–vent length.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Ecuador and occurs on the Amazonian slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes in the Napo Province.
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
Even so, in 2009 one new population was found near the Llanganates National Park, and another from the Sumaco volcano (not specified whether the locality was within the Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park).
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Nymphargus anomalus 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 Nymphargus anomalus, Wikidata item Q604124. 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.
