Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Bufonidae > Oreophrynella > Oreophrynella quelchii

Oreophrynella quelchii (Toad)

Synonyms: Oreophryne quelchii

Wikipedia Abstract

Oreophrynella quelchii (commonly known as the Roraima black frog) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. This species is restricted to the transboundary summit of Mount Roraima in Venezuela (inside Canaima National Park World Heritage Site), Guyana and Brazil, and from Wei-Assipu-tepui on the Brazil–Guyana border. It has been recorded from 2,300–2,800m asl. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and rocky areas.
View Wikipedia Record: Oreophrynella quelchii

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Oreophrynella quelchii

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  15
Litters / Year [1]  2
Snout to Vent Length [1]  0.846 inches (2.15 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Pantepuis Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0