Critically Endangered
Plectrohyla exquisita
Plectrohyla exquisita
Plectrohyla exquisita is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The treefrog
Plectrohyla exquisita is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Sierra de Omoa in the Cortés Department of northwestern Honduras. The species range is within the Cusuco National Park. Natural habitats of Plectrohyla exquisita are lower montane wet forests at elevations of 1,490–1,680 m (4,890–5,510 ft) asl.
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
It is moderately common but assumed to be in decline because of chytridiomycosis.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Plectrohyla exquisita 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 exquisita, Wikidata item Q917946. 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.
