Endangered
Puruanta Plump Toad
Osornophryne puruanta
Puruanta Plump Toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Osornophryne puruanta, recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
Its back is yellowish brown and has yellow pustules on the flanks. Its ventral surface is reddish brown with cream pustules. Its iris is dark brown with some golden yellow spots.
Puruanta Plump Toad measures 40 to 47 mm for females. The spawn has between 35 and 50 eggs with an average diameter of 3 mm.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to the province of Imbabura in Ecuador. It is located in the Pimampiro Mountain at 3,500 m above sea level.
GBIF currently lists 13 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.
Puruanta Plump Toad 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 Puruanta Plump Toad — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3357316 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
