Critically Endangered
Pithecopus ayeaye
Pithecopus ayeaye
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Appearance
The dorsal side is a bright green color, and the sides of its body and appendages have a distinctive network of black lines with circular reddish to orange spots. The ventral side is a black to gray color. Their dorsal surface is dark, while their ventral surface is a light gray color.
Pithecopus ayeaye is a medium-sized frog that can grow between 28.7 mm to 40 mm long and weigh from 1.89 g to 7.5 g.
Range and habitat
The reticulated leaf frog is native to South America and lives in the Espinhaco, Mantiqueira, and Canastra mountain ranges located in Brazil. The topography includes mountains with rivers running between them. Streams run through the semideciduous forests, that provide water, shade, and protection.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The breeding season is from October to January. Most P. Ayeaye breed on nights with sufficient rainfall to increase the likelihood that fertilization will occur.
In crisis
This species is under threat from habitat loss resulting from mining activity and fires, and is also affected by pollution from mining and pesticides. Pithecopus ayeaye is currently under threat due to habitat loss. Human-related threats include mining for materials in Brazil, fires that ravage the landscape, and pollution from industries and military operations.
The pollutants in the water causes a decline in the population. Non-human threats include climate change and erosion, that causes streams to be filled with sediment.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pithecopus ayeaye 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 Pithecopus ayeaye, Wikidata item Q28925519. 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.
