Endangered
Southern pastel frog
Eleutherodactylus leoncei
Southern pastel frog is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura) — Eleutherodactylus leoncei, recorded as Endangered and tied to Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The frog
Southern pastel frog is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura) — Eleutherodactylus leoncei.
Range and habitat
The type series and the majority of subsequent specimens were collected during the day under rocks and logs in pine (Pinus occidentalis) and hardwood forests, while one was discovered crossing a road in a pine forest at night. It is considered a terrestrial species that lives in upland pine forests, preferring shady spots and calling from the ground. It is endemic to Hispaniola and known from the Massif de la Selle, both in the Dominican Republic and in Haiti.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by logging and agriculture. It is important to improve the management of existing protected areas and maintain the remaining habitat. The main threat is habitat loss caused by logging (charcoaling) and slash-and-burn agriculture carried on by local communities.
Because of a projected population loss of more than 80% in the next ten years due to extreme destruction of the species' habitat in Hispaniola, the species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Southern pastel 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 Southern pastel frog, Wikidata item Q2276454. 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.
