Endangered
Pyrenean Frog
Rana pyrenaica
Pyrenean Frog is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura) — Rana pyrenaica, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Pyrenean frog is the smallest species of brown frog in Europe, with adults reaching a snout-to-vent length of about 33 to 45 mm (1.3 to 1.8 in), females being slightly larger than males. The snout is blunt and rounded and the nostrils are more widely separated than are the eye bulges. This frog is creamy-brown, buff, greyish-brown, reddish-brown or olive-grey with rather indistinct blotches of greenish-brown or brown.
Range and habitat
The Pyrenean frog is endemic to the Pyrenees with most populations being on the Spanish slopes at altitudes between about 1,000 and 1,800 m (3,300 and 5,900 ft). Its range extends from the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park to the Roncal Valley in the Navarre region. It is also present in limited numbers on the French side of the mountains.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding takes place after the snow has melted, the female laying batches of jelly-covered eggs (totalling up to 150) under stones, in crevices or on the bed of a stream.
In crisis
The IUCN lists it as "endangered".
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pyrenean 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 Pyrenean Frog, Wikidata item Q1769180. 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.
