Critically Endangered
Thomasset's Seychelles Frog
Sooglossus thomasseti
Thomasset's Seychelles Frog is a frog in the family Sooglossidae (order Anura) — Sooglossus thomasseti, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The frog
Thomasset's Seychelles Frog is a frog in the family Sooglossidae (order Anura) — Sooglossus thomasseti.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Seychelles. There are two known populations: one on Silhouette Island and one on Mahé Island. The natural habitats of this frog are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, and intermittent rivers.
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
The species is threatened by habitat loss. Genetic analysis indicates that the two populations of this species are distinct from each other and are possibly even separate species. It has thus been proposed that both populations be considered evolutionary significant units for conservation purposes.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Thomasset's Seychelles 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 Thomasset's Seychelles Frog, Wikidata item Q1883671. 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.
