Endangered
Pristimantis inusitatus
Pristimantis inusitatus
Pristimantis inusitatus is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
Males measure 15–23 mm (0.59–0.91 in) and females 17–26 mm (0.67–1.02 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is subacuminate in dorsal view and protruding in lateral profile and has a pointed tip. Dorsal skin is shagreened or smooth. There are large warts laterally.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Ecuador and known from scattered localities along the eastern slopes of the Andes.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by agriculture, logging, and human settlement.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Pristimantis inusitatus is 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 Pristimantis inusitatus, Wikidata item Q4456662. 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.
