Critically Endangered
Wolterstorffina parvipalmata
Wolterstorffina parvipalmata
Wolterstorffina parvipalmata is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The toad
Wolterstorffina parvipalmata is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura).
Range and habitat
The Cameroon Wolterstorff toad or montane forest tree toad is a toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found on the western and southern slopes of the Cameroon Range (among them Mount Cameroon) and Yaoundé Hills in Cameroon, and on the Obudu Plateau in eastern Nigeria. Its natural habitat is closed-canopy montane forest near streams and small waterfalls.
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 threatened by habitat loss.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Wolterstorffina parvipalmata 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 Wolterstorffina parvipalmata, Wikidata item Q2237331. 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.
