Endangered
Pristimantis pycnodermis
Pristimantis pycnodermis
Pristimantis pycnodermis is a rain frog in the family Craugastoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
Adult males measure 18–32 mm (0.7–1.3 in) and adult females 33–44 mm (1.3–1.7 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is subacuminate in dorsal view and truncate in lateral profile. Preserved specimens are brown with large black blotches on the flanks and the limbs.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Ecuadorean Andes and occurs in the Cordillera de Matanga in the Azuay and Morona-Santiago Provinces.
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 and deterioration caused by agriculture (crops, livestock) and human settlements.
Direct-developing frogs vanish with the forest floor. There is no pond population waiting off-site.
Pristimantis pycnodermis 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 pycnodermis, Wikidata item Q4456146. 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.
