Critically Endangered
Pristimantis phoxocephalus
Pristimantis phoxocephalus
Pristimantis phoxocephalus is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The rain frog
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
It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forests, high-altitude shrubland, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. 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 phoxocephalus 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 phoxocephalus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q4459431. 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.
