Endangered
Odorrana utsunomiyaorum
Odorrana utsunomiyaorum
Odorrana utsunomiyaorum is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Japan.
Appearance
Adult males measure 39–48 mm (1.5–1.9 in) and adult females 46–59 mm (1.8–2.3 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is obtusely pointed in dorsal view but rounded in profile. Dorsal ground colour varies from light brown to greenish brown.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and is known from the islands of Ishigaki and Iriomote, both in the Yaeyama Group.
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
Habitat loss and degradation caused by deforestation is a major threat. It also suffers from competition with the introduced cane toads (Rhinella marina).
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Odorrana utsunomiyaorum 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 utsunomiyaorum, Wikidata item Q1611415. 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.
