Critically Endangered
Werneria bambutensis
Werneria bambutensis
Werneria bambutensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males can grow to 33 mm (1.3 in) and adult females to 38 mm (1.5 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is short and rounded. The dorsum and the flanks are dark greenish-olive to clear bronze, with a gold shimmer or blackish speckles.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to western Cameroon where it occurs at high altitudes between Mount Manengouba and Mount Oku, among them the eponymous Bamboutos Mountains.
It is not known from protected areas, although it might be present in the Bafut-Ngemba Forest Reserve.
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
It is further threatened by habitat loss (i.e., deforestation).
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Werneria bambutensis 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 Werneria bambutensis, Wikidata item Q1942274. 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.
