Endangered
Spinomantis brunae
Spinomantis brunae
Spinomantis brunae is a frog in the family Mantellidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
Males measure 32–35 mm (1.3–1.4 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsum is olive green with a reticulated pattern of dark brown spots. The flanks have white spots.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Madagascar and known from the Anosy Mountains in southeastern Madagascar.
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
Even so, the frog is threatened by habitat loss caused by subsistence agriculture, logging, and expanding human settlements.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Spinomantis brunae 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 Spinomantis brunae, Wikidata item Q17107816. 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.
