Critically Endangered
Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi
Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi
Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi is a frog in the family Phrynobatrachidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 32–34 mm (1.3–1.3 in) and adult females 29–32 mm (1.1–1.3 in) in snout–vent length. Dorsal coloration varies from medium to dark brown. Coloration may appear uniform but typically includes some lighter and darker spots.
Range and habitat
It is found in submontane and montane regions within the Cameroon volcanic line (Mount Manengouba, Bamboutos Mountains, Mount Lefo, and Mount Oku) as well as the adjacent Obudu Plateau in the southeast of Nigeria.
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
It is also highly threatened by agricultural pressure among them cattle grazing, use of herbicides and pesticides, burning of montane grasslands, and harvesting for firewood, as well as by expanding human settlements.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi 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 Phrynobatrachus jimzimkusi, Wikidata item Q14514589. 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.
