Endangered
Beduka koynayensis
Xanthophryne koynayensis
Beduka koynayensis is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura) — Xanthophryne koynayensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to India.
Appearance
Beduka koynayensis are relatively small toads: adult males measure 24–32 mm (0.94–1.26 in) in snout–vent length. The body is covered by small warts with black tips and dark brown in colour. There are yellow patches on the flanks, thighs, and shoulders. Beduka koynayensis (common names: Humbali Village toad, chrome-yellow toad, Koyna toad) is a toad in the family Bufonidae.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Western Ghats of India where it is known from Koyna (among them Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary) in the Maharashtra state.
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 caused by agriculture and clear cutting of forests.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Beduka koynayensis 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 Beduka koynayensis, Wikidata item Q1390810. 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.
