Critically Endangered
Pristimantis jamescameroni
Pristimantis jamescameroni
Pristimantis jamescameroni is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Pristimantis jamescameroni is a tiny frog, and mostly brown with orange stripes in colour. Sexual dimorphism is characterized by larger female (2.6–2.7 cm or 1.0–1.1 in snout–vent length) against the smaller male (2.3 cm or 0.9 in snout–vent length). The dorsal surface is mixed with numerous white flecks.
Range and habitat
It is an orange-brown coloured small frog reported so far only from the Aprada-tepui, a table-top mountain in Bolívar state, Venezuela. Due to its restricted occurrence, the species could be classified as "endangered" according to the criteria of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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 jamescameroni 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 Pristimantis jamescameroni, Wikidata item Q15841005. 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.
