Endangered
Pickersgill's Reed Frog
Hyperolius pickersgilli
Pickersgill's Reed Frog is a reed frog in the family Hyperoliidae (order Anura) — Hyperolius pickersgilli, recorded as Endangered and tied to South Africa.
Appearance
Adult males grow to usually no more than 22 mm (0.9 in) whereas adult female can approach 30 mm (1.2 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is acutely pointed. There are two colour phases.
Females change to the female colour phase at length of 20–22 mm (0.8–0.9 in).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to South Africa. It occurs in the coastal lowlands of KwaZulu-Natal between Sezela and St Lucia.
The species occurs in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Umlalazi Nature Reserve, Ongoye Forest Reserve, and Twinstreams-Mtunzini Natural Heritage Site.
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
This habitat type is highly endangered and poorly protected.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pickersgill's Reed Frog 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 Pickersgill's Reed Frog, Wikidata item Q307212. 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.
