Critically Endangered
Plectrohyla teuchestes
Plectrohyla teuchestes
Plectrohyla teuchestes is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The treefrog
Plectrohyla teuchestes is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Guatemala and only known with certainty from its type locality on the southern slope of the Sierra de Xucaneb, in the Alta Verapaz Department. Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forests where it lives near streams and waterfalls at about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) above sea level. As of 2004, the only known location was facing habitat loss, and no specimens had been located, despite searches.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding takes place in streams.
In crisis
Chytridiomycosis might also be a threat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Plectrohyla teuchestes 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 teuchestes, Wikidata item Q917807. 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.
