Rhinella yunga

The toad

The 3 adult male specimens observed in the original description measure 57 to 59 mm standard length and the adult female specimen observed in the original description measures 65 mm standard length.

True toads are stocky amphibians with warty skin and parotoid glands. Breeding is usually explosive and aquatic.

Frogs and toads typically begin as aquatic tadpoles, though some families lay eggs on land and hatch as froglets. Skin and eggs both need moisture.

Range and habitat

This species is endemic to Peru. It is found in the regions of Pasco and Junín.

GBIF currently lists 6 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

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

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

Rhinella yunga 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 Spanish Wikipedia article on Rhinella yunga, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q18121633 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.