Endangered
Upland Coqui
Eleutherodactylus portoricensis
Upland Coqui is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae (order Anura) — Eleutherodactylus portoricensis, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The mountain coquí's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests at elevations above 180 m. Upland Coqui (vernacular Spanish: coquí de la montaña) is a frog native to Puerto Rico that belongs to the family Eleutherodactylidae. Its vernacular English names are forest coquí, upland coquí, mountain coquí, and Puerto Rican robber frog.
The results highlight the importance of topographic complexity in promoting within-island allopatric speciation in the Greater Antilles, and indicate long-term persistence and lineage diversification despite Quaternary climatic oscillations.
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 low-elevation Caguas Basin in eastern Puerto Rico has been a long-term barrier to gene flow between populations of E. Portoricensis in the Luquillo and Cayey Mountains, with population divergence beginning more than 75,000 years ago. Stable population sizes over time indicate a lack of demographic response to climatic changes during the last glacial period. The species has undergone considerable declines throughout its range and is listed as endangered.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Upland Coqui 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 Upland Coqui, Wikidata item Q1594117. 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.
