Critically Endangered
Spiny giant frog
Eleutherodactylus nortoni
Spiny giant frog is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura) — Eleutherodactylus nortoni, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The five adult males in the type series measure 52–66 mm (2.0–2.6 in) in snout–vent length. The colouration is green with darker green, irregular blotches. The fore- and hindlimbs have subcircular blotches. The thighs have three bars.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Hispaniola and known from the Massif de la Hotte, Massif de la Selle, and Sierra de Baoruco, occurring in both the Dominican Republic and 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
Once considered locally not rare, Spiny giant frog is now uncommon and assessed as "critically endangered".
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Spiny giant frog 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 Spiny giant frog, Wikidata item Q2276548. 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.
