Endangered
Oreophrynella quelchii
Oreophrynella quelchii
Oreophrynella quelchii is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The holotype, a male, measures 22 mm (0.87 in) in snout–vent length. Coloration is black, but the throat and belly are spotted or marbled with bright yellow, also described as bright orange with black mottling.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Oreophrynella quelchii on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
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
There are currently no major threats, although the restricted range of the species makes it vulnerable to stochastic events. Also disturbance by tourists could be a threat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Oreophrynella quelchii 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 Oreophrynella quelchii, Wikidata item Q140844. 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.
