Phrynopus kauneorum

Appearance

Adult females measure 29–56 mm (1.1–2.2 in) in snout–vent length—the maximum size is very large for the genus. The snout is short and rounded. Dorsal coloration is glaucous with sepia blotches and stripes. One stripe runs from the beginning of the nose and extends across the upper eyelid to the inguinal region; another one runs dorsolaterally from behind the supratympanic fold to the middle of body.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to the Andes of Peru and known from near its type locality in the Pachitea Province, as well as from the Cordillera de Carpish, both in the Huánuco Region.

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

Agricultural activities, primarily potato cultivation and livestock ranching, are the main threats to it.

Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.

Phrynopus kauneorum 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 kauneorum, Wikidata item Q2239302. 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.