Endangered
Gardiner's Seychelles frog
Sechellophryne gardineri
Gardiner's Seychelles frog is a small frog of the family Sooglossidae and endemic to the Seychelles.
Appearance
It is brown in color, and has a dark stripe running from its mouth to its legs.
Gardiner's frog is one of the smallest frogs in the world, reaching a maximum length of 11 millimeters (0.43 inches).
Newly hatched frogs measure 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) in length.
Range and habitat
Gardiner's Seychelles frog is a small frog of the family Sooglossidae and endemic to the Seychelles. It is named after John Stanley Gardiner, English zoologist and oceanographer.
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.
Gardiner's Seychelles 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 Gardiner's Seychelles frog, Wikidata item Q4670240. 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.
