Plectrohyla dasypus

Appearance

Plectrohyla dasypus can be told apart from other Plectrohyla tree frogs by its small size, with a snout to vent length of 31.5 to 44 mm (1.24 to 1.73 in). It also typically has a smooth back, although some small tubercles may be present, it has vocal slits and there is no vertical keel on the snout. The back is bronze and the underside is grey, with no darke lines or spots.

Range and habitat

Plectrohyla dasypus is endemic to the Cusuco National Park in the Cortés Department of Honduras at elevations between 1,410 and 1,990 m (4,630 and 6,530 ft) above sea level. Its natural habitats are lower montane wet forests. It is endemic to northwestern Honduras.

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

Plectrohyla dasypus was once moderately common, the species has undergone a dramatic decline that is attributed to chytridiomycosis and it is now classified as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Plectrohyla dasypus 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 Plectrohyla dasypus, Wikidata item Q596735. 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.