Endangered
Yellow mottled coqui
Eleutherodactylus lentus
The yellow-mottled coqui or mute coqui is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to the Virgin Islands.
Appearance
The yellow-mottled coqui or mute coqui is a frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to the Virgin Islands.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to the Virgin Islands, where it is found on St. Croix, and Hassel Island in the US Virgin Islands, and on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. It has been suggested that the species being introduced to the BVI is more likely, as several intensive herpetological surveys before 2007 failed to document this species and locals on the island were completely unaware of the species, despite knowing about several other Eleutherodactylus frogs native to Jost Van Dyke.
The yellow-mottled coqui is classified as being endangered by the IUCN Red List due to its limited distribution (estimated to be 2,315 km2) and ongoing habitat degradation in the US Virgin Islands. The species is known from the Virgin Islands National Park, that protects around two-thirds of St.
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. Its population is currently decreasing due to habitat degradation. The status of the population on Jost Van Dyke is uncertain. If that population is invasive, it has been suggested that the species be extirpated from the island to protect native frogs.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Yellow mottled 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 Yellow mottled coqui, Wikidata item Q2274628. 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.
