Endangered
Phrynopus cophites
Bryophryne cophites
Phrynopus cophites is a rainfrog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura) — Bryophryne cophites, recorded as Endangered and tied to Peru.
Appearance
Adult males measure 18–23 mm (0.7–0.9 in) and adult females 22–29 mm (0.9–1.1 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is short, rounded in dorsal view and rounded to truncate in lateral view. Skin is dorsally finely areolate, becoming coarser towards the flanks and the ventrum.
Reproduction occurs through direct development (i.e., there is no free-living larval stage): females lay about 20 eggs that hatch as 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long froglets. They guard their eggs in a nest of moss.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Peru and known only from slopes of the Abra Acanacu (also spelled Acjanaco or Acanaco) in the Cordillera de Paucartambo, Cusco Region. There is an unconfirmed record from a neighboring mountain range, so this species might be more widespread than current knowledge suggests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Direct-developing rainfrogs live in wet forest. They do not need a pond, which is why a logged hillside can erase a species.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been detected in this species, but it is not considered a threat for direct-developing frogs such as this one.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Phrynopus cophites 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 Phrynopus cophites, Wikidata item Q2699018. 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.
