Endangered
Odorrana splendida
Odorrana splendida
Odorrana splendida is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
This species inhabits the upstream regions surrounded by broad-leaved evergreen forests.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Amami Island, the second largest island of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. Observations in the western part of the island, indicate that the breeding season is from late January to May, with the peak in February to March. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by logging, the construction of roads and alteration of rivers.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
During the breeding season, males come to specific breeding streams and stay in the surrounding area.
In crisis
The small Indian mongoose, introduced in 1979, was eradicated in 2024, eliminating the threat posed by mongooses.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Odorrana splendida 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 Odorrana splendida, Wikidata item Q3349373. 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.
