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Darwin's frog camouflaged among fallen leaves

Amphibia · Anura

Darwin's Frog

Rhinoderma darwinii

One of only two frog species on Earth in which the male swallows his mate's fertilized eggs and broods the developing tadpoles inside his own vocal sac until they emerge as fully formed froglets.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
ENEndangered
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 107 licence-filtered records across 16 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (14)