Critically Endangered
Giant Andean Rainfrog
Pristimantis andinogigas
Giant Andean Rainfrog is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura) — Pristimantis andinogigas, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
The rain frog
These New World rainfrogs typically skip a free-swimming tadpole: eggs are laid on land and froglets hatch directly.
Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.
Range and habitat
Giant Andean Rainfrog is recorded from Ecuador.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is “ECUADOR; provincia de Loja, Parque Nacional Podocarpus, Cajanuma; 4.108346°S, 79.162046°W, 3313 m alt.”.
GBIF currently lists 13 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Direct-developing rainfrogs live in wet forest. They do not need a pond, which is why a logged hillside can erase a species.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Giant Andean Rainfrog 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 Wikidata item Q76901568 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
