Pristimantis ornatissimus

The rain frog

Pristimantis ornatissimus is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura).

Range and habitat

Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and moist montane forests, at altitudes of 400–1800 meters. It can also be found in plantations of banana (Musa paradisiaca) and sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) that border native forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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 ornatissimus 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 ornatissimus, Wikidata item Q4454610. 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.