Pristimantis mallii

Appearance

Adult males measure 12–21 mm (0.5–0.8 in) and adult females 23–43 mm (0.9–1.7 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is broadly rounded in dorsal view. The skin on the dorsum and flanks are shagreen.

Described in 2019, it is only known from the Río Zuñag Reserve on the eastern slope of the Andes, in the upper basin of the Pastaza River.

Range and habitat

Mallikarjuna "Malli" Rao, winner of Lavoisier Medal who helped develop an environmentally safe alternative to the fluorocarbons and whose donation helped establish the Río Zuñag Reserve.

The Río Zuñag Reserve is located in the buffer zone of the Llanganates National Park.

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

Pristimantis mallii is known from the montane cloud forests of the east-central slope of the Andes at elevations of 1,300–2,190 m (4,270–7,190 ft) above sea level.

Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.

Pristimantis mallii 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 mallii, Wikidata item Q63346444. 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.