Telmatobius halli

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	CERATOPHRYIDAE

Scientific Name:	Telmatobius halli
Species Authority:	Noble, 1938

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 3.1

Year Published:

2010

Assessor/s:

Alberto Veloso, Herman Núñez, Ramón Formas

Reviewer/s:

Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Listed as Data Deficient in view of the absence of recent information on its extent of occurrence, status and ecological requirements.

History:

2004	–	Data Deficient
1996	–	Data Deficient (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)
1996	–	Data Deficient
1994	–	Rare (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known only from Ollagüe, in El Loa Province in northern Chile, at 2,000-3,400m asl. It might occur in neighbouring Bolivia.
Countries:	Native: Chile
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Population [top]

Population:	It is known only from the type series, which was collected in 1937. Several expeditions to the area in recent years have failed to locate any individuals of this species, which might no longer survive at the type locality, although it could occur elsewhere.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species was collected from a hot spring. Its reproductive details are unknown, but reproduction presumably occurs by larval development in water.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There is no information on threats to this species, although chtridiomycosis might be a potential future threat.

Major Threat(s):

There is no information on threats to this species, although chtridiomycosis might be a potential future threat.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no protected areas near the region where it was collected.

Conservation Actions:

There are no protected areas near the region where it was collected.

Citation:	Alberto Veloso, Herman Núñez, Ramón Formas 2010. Telmatobius halli. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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