Endangered
Puerto Rican crested toad
Peltophryne lemur
Puerto Rican crested toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Peltophryne lemur, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The Puerto Rican crested toad, also known as the Puerto Rican toad or lowland Caribbean toad, locally known as sapo concho is a toad found only in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It is the only species of toad native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The species formerly occurred in Virgin Gorda and along the southern and northern karst in Puerto Rico.
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
It is listed as threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service due to habitat loss and introduced species. At one period of time it was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1966. The IUCN has the species listed as endangered.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Puerto Rican crested toad 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 Puerto Rican crested toad, Wikidata item Q28004559. 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.
