Endangered
Mahony's toadlet
Uperoleia mahonyi
Mahony's toadlet is a small frog that is endemic to Australia.
Appearance
The upper body is brown to dark brown, that may be patched with grey, pale pink or orange-brown, and often has a triangular brown patch on the head. The tops of the arms are sometimes yellow. The belly is marbled black and bluish-white.
The species grows to about 35 mm in length (SVL).
Range and habitat
The species’ known range is limited to the Central Coast region of New South Wales on the east coast of Australia. The frogs are found in coastal swamps, occasionally in dams, in heath or wallum habitats on white sand soils, and acidic paperbark swamps. Mahony's toadlet is a small frog that is endemic to Australia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding takes place in spring and summer.
In crisis
As of March 2021, the species is classified as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Mahony's toadlet 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 Mahony's toadlet, Wikidata item Q27845052. 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.
