Critically Endangered
Puerto Rican wetland frog
Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi
Puerto Rican wetland frog, the Plains coquí or Puerto Rican wetland frog, is an endangered species of coquí, a frog species, endemic to Puerto Rico.
Appearance
The frog is the smallest of its genus in Puerto Rico, with a snout-to-vent length of 14.7 millimetres (0.58 in) in males and 15.8 millimetres (0.62 in) in females. It has extensive dorsal skin glands. The prominent nares (nostrils) have a ridge that connects behind the snout tip, giving the nose a squared-off appearance.
Range and habitat
It is only found in the old Naval Base of Sábana Seca in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. It inhabits palustrine wetland that is seasonally flooded with fresh water. This reliance on one plant make the coquí llanero very specialized in its habitat requirements.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The species' reproduction is uniquely correlated to rainfall: it produces egg clutches most often during periods of higher rainfall.
In crisis
The Department of Natural Resources of Puerto Rico added this species to the endangered species list, and designated its critical habitat likewise. The species is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Puerto Rican wetland frog 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 Puerto Rican wetland frog, Wikidata item Q3014213. 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.
