Critically Endangered
Pristimantis imthurni
Pristimantis imthurni
Pristimantis imthurni is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Venezuela.
The rain frog
The holotype male observed during the original description measures 22.9 mm.
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
Pristimantis imthurni is recorded from Venezuela.
GBIF currently lists 5 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.
Pristimantis imthurni 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 French Wikipedia article on Pristimantis imthurni, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q15841004 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
