Ceiba stream frog

The treefrog

Ceiba stream frog is a treefrog in the family Hylidae (order Anura) — Ptychohyla spinipollex.

Range and habitat

The Ceiba stream frog (Atlantihyla spinipollex) is a frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Honduras. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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

In 2020, a population of frogs believed to be the Ceiba stream frog was described as a new species, Atlantihyla melissa.

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

Ceiba stream frog 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 Ceiba stream frog, Wikidata item Q2709329. 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.