Osornophryne cofanorum

Appearance

Osornophryne cofanorum has a snout-to-vent length of up to 1.8 centimetres (0.71 in) in males, and up to 3.4 centimetres (1.3 in) in females. The males have green heads and eyelids, grey bodies, and yellow, brown, cream, or white warts. The underside has white, yellow, and orange warts.

Range and habitat

Osornophryne cofanorum is found in Ecuador's Cordillera Real mountains and montane forests. Its extent of occurrence is 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi), though it may be wider, as there are no obvious barriers to dispersal. The species' range may extend into Colombia.

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

Osornophryne cofanorum is native to the mountane forests of Ecuador, and classified as critically endangered. In 2021, Osornophryne cofanorum was assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN. The species' habitat is threatened by mining.

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

Osornophryne cofanorum is Critically 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 Osornophryne cofanorum, Wikidata item Q3357311. 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.