Critically Endangered
Scutiger spinosus
Scutiger spinosus
Scutiger spinosus is a frog in the family Megophryidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 51–56 mm (2.0–2.2 in) and adult females 54–57 mm (2.1–2.2 in) in snout–vent length. Skin is dorsally very rough and largely covered with tubercles, many of them bearing black spines. The upper surfaces are dark brownish gray. The flanks are light brown.
Range and habitat
It is found in Medog County, Tibet (China) and in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh (India).
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
As of late 2018, this species had not been included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Scutiger spinosus 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 Scutiger spinosus, Wikidata item Q25383872. 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.
