Endangered
Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog
Odorrana narina
Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog is a frog in the family Ranidae (order Anura) — Odorrana narina, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It occurs in streams in primary or well-recovered secondary broad-leaved evergreen forest at elevations up to 503 m (1,650 ft).
Range and habitat
The Ryukyu tip-nosed frog, Ryukyu Island frog, or Okinawa tip-nosed frog is a frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Okinawa Island, in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. It is threatened by habitat loss and by predation from introduced small Indian mongooses (Herpestes auropunctatus).
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.
Ryukyu Tip-nosed 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 Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog, Wikidata item Q514328. 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.
