Mallorcan Midwife Toad

The Mallorcan Midwife Toad is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Mallorcan midwife toad can be found only in the Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca, Spain. The estimated number of the Mallorcan midwife toad is 50 breeding pairs. More

The Mallorcan midwife toad has an unusual breeding system. Intense competition for males occurs amongst females, who grapple with each other over mates (5). In common with other members of this unusual genus, males carry the developing eggs until the tadpoles hatch (5). More

With Mallorcan Midwife Toads it is the females of the species who compete with each other for the attention of males at mating times. As with all Midwife Toad species, it is the males who carry the developing eggs until the tadpoles hatch. More

The Majorcan Midwife Toad (also Mallorcan Midwife Toad or Ferreret in Balearic Catalan and Spanish) is an Amphibian of the order Anura and in the family Discoglossidae. It is exclusively endemic to the Balearic Island of Majorca in the Mediterranean Sea. More

The Mallorcan midwife toad is part of an ancient lineage of amphibians, diverging from all others 155 million years ago. More

Efforts to save the Mallorcan midwife toad and to reintroduce it into its natural environment, may be causing its extinction because of a fungal infection that was unknown at the time of the reintroduction. More

Mallorcan midwife toads, was responsible for spreading the infection to them. The captive breeding and reintroduction programme for the Mallorcan midwife toad has been highly successful in increasing the numbers of the rare toad on the island. More

species, the Mallorcan midwife toad is the only amphibian that has been downgraded from Critically Endangered to Vulnerable. More

Mallorcan midwife toad saved from extinction 17th November 2004 toad Durrell Wildlife is delighted to announce that the Mallorcan midwife toad has been reclassified from Critically Endangered to Vulnerable on the IUCN’s Red List. More

The Mallorcan midwife toad caused quite a stir when it was discovered alive 30 years ago. Previously known only through fossils, the toad-whose males carry the eggs instead of females-was considered long extinct. More

Mallorcan midwife toad saved from extinction = One of the world's strangest animals, the Mallorcan midwife toad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction. More

I compared the activity levels of Mallorcan midwife toad tadpoles in two natural torrent pools which differed in their use by predatory viperine snakes: one pool was regularly used by these predators, whereas in the other no snake had been observed previously. More

generations of captive breeding, Mallorcan midwife toads have retained the natural anti-predator behaviour exhibited by the wild tadpoles in their natural torrent pools. More

Distribution of the Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) in relation to landscape topography and introduced predators = Moore, R.D. and Griffiths, R.A. and Roman, A. (2004) Distribution of the Mallorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) in relation to landscape topography and introduced predators. More

Today, Mallorcan Midwife toads are held and bred at a number of other European institutions including; The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent; Stuttgart Museum; The Open University; Barcelona Zoo; and Marineland (Palma de Mallorca). More

vulnerable Mallorcan midwife toad Alytes muletensis using eight polymorphic microsatellite markers. The current range of this amphibian is restricted to some 19 sites of which six are derived from reintroductions, all located in the mountain ranges of Mallorca. More

Mallorcan midwife toads resulted in chytrid-carrying toads being released into the wild. More