| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AMPHIBIA | ANURA | HYLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Osteopilus brunneus | |||
| Species Authority: | (Gosse, 1851) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
| Year Published: | 2004 |
| Assessor/s: | Blair Hedges, Susan Koenig, Byron Wilson |
| Reviewer/s: | Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young) |
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Justification: Listed as Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is less than 20,000 km2, it is common and reasonably adaptable with a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
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| Range Description: | This species is endemic to Jamaica, where it is widespread throughout the country, except in the southern parts. It has been recorded up to 1,500m asl. |
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Native:
Jamaica
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| Population: | It is a common species. |
| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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| Habitat and Ecology: | It inhabits open woods, parkland, and montane forests, usually associated with bromeliads, which are used for retreat and calling sites. It is mainly arboreal. It can tolerate some degree of habitat disturbance, for example it can live in good secondary forest as long as there are bromeliads. It lays its eggs in bromeliads, and the tadpoles also develop there. | ||||||||||||
| Systems: | Terrestrial | ||||||||||||
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| Major Threat(s): | Deforestation for agriculture, human settlement, tourist development and selective logging is a localized threat,. Suitable secondary forest habitats are starting to develop at mid-elevations in Jamaica, due to abandonment of farms, and so in some places it might be increasing. It is mainly the coastal areas that's habitats are being affected the worst at present. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conservation Actions: | Its range includes a protected area and several forest reserves, although they are not well managed at present. | ||||||||||
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Hedges, S.B. 1993. Global amphibian declines: a perspective from the Caribbean. Biodiversity and Conservation: 290-303. Hedges, S.B. 1999. Distribution of amphibians in the West Indies. In: Duellman, W.E. (ed.), Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians. A Global Perspective, pp. 211-254. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland. Hedges, S.B. 2001. Caribherp: database of West Indian amphibians and reptiles (http://www.caribherp.net). Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Henderson, R.W. and Powell, R. 1999. West Indian herpetoecology. In: Crother, B.I. (ed.), Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles, pp. 223-226. Academic Press, San Diego, California. Henderson, R.W. and Powell, R. 2001. Responses by the West Indian herpetofauna to human-influenced resources. Caribbean Journal of Science: 41-54. IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004. Lanoo, M.J., Townsend, D.S. and Wassersug, R.J. 1987. Larval life in the leaves: arboreal tadpole types, with special attention to the morphology, ecology and behaviour of the oophagus Osteopilus brunneus (Hylidae) larvae. Fieldiana Zoology: iv+31. Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions and Natural History. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida. Thompson, R.L. 1996. Larval habitat, ecology, and parental investment of Osteopilus brunneus (Hylidae). In: Powell, R. and Henderson, R.W. (eds), Contributions to West Indian Herpetology: A Tribute to Albert Schwartz, pp. 259-269. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York, USA. |
| Citation: | Blair Hedges, Susan Koenig, Byron Wilson 2004. Osteopilus brunneus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012. |
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