Proceratophrys palustris

The frog

Proceratophrys palustris is a frog in the family Odontophrynidae (order Anura).

Range and habitat

This terrestrial, nocturnal frog lives in gallery forests. The frog's range includes two protected areas, Parque Natural Municipal Da Serra De São Domingos and Parque Estadual Águas Da Prataó, but scientists have not reported the frog there.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.

Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.

In crisis

The IUCN classifies this frog as critically endangered. The principal threats are habitat loss. The area has been heavily exploited and there is only some forest remaining.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Proceratophrys palustris 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 Proceratophrys palustris, Wikidata item Q542664. 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.