Ranitomeya summersi

The frog

Ranitomeya summersi is a frog in the family Dendrobatidae (order Anura).

Range and habitat

It inhabits dry primary and secondary submontane forest. Ranitomeya summersi, sometimes referred to as Summers' poison frog, is a poison dart frogs found in the central Huallaga River drainage and adjacent Cordillera Azul National Park in central Peru. The IUCN considers it an endangered species because of limited habitat range, habitat loss, and collection for the pet trade.

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 endangered because of the considerable and ongoing habitat loss associated with widespread deforestation in favor of both small-scale farming and agrobusiness.

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

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

Ranitomeya summersi 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 Ranitomeya summersi, Wikidata item Q4672421. 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.