Osornophryne angel

The toad

True toads are stocky amphibians with warty skin and parotoid glands. Breeding is usually explosive and aquatic.

Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.

Range and habitat

This species is endemic to the province of Carchi in Ecuador. It is located in the moor of the El Ángel ecological reserve at the Chiles volcano between 3252 and 3797 m above sea level on the western slope of the western mountain range.

GBIF currently lists 19 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

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

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Osornophryne angel 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 Spanish Wikipedia article on Osornophryne angel, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q3357310 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.