Endangered
Xanthophryne tigerina
Xanthophryne tigerina
Xanthophryne tigerina is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to India.
Appearance
This species is medium-sized for a toad, males are smaller (male snout–vent length 28–33 mm (1.1–1.3 in), female 33–35 mm (1.3–1.4 in)), somewhat elongated with a broken canthal ridge.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and known only from the vicinity of Amboli in Maharashtra.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding takes place in temporary ponds in cavities within lateritic rock.
In crisis
It is classified as Endangered by the IUCN because it occurs only at a single location and its habitat is fragmented by human development.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Xanthophryne tigerina 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 Xanthophryne tigerina, Wikidata item Q3570561. 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.
