Bufo ailaoanus

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	BUFONIDAE

Scientific Name:

Bufo ailaoanus

Species Authority:

Kou, 1984

Common Name/s:

English

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Ailao Toad

Taxonomic Notes:

This species perhaps belongs in the genus Torrentophryne (Yang Datong pers. comm.).

Red List Category & Criteria:	Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Yang Datong, Lu Shunqing
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Data Deficient in view of the absence of recent information on its extent of occurrence, status and ecological requirements.

Range Description:	This species is only known from Shuangbai County in Yunnan Province, China, from 2,550-2,600m asl. It might occur more widely.
Countries:	Native: China
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Population:	Only one specimen has ever been collected, and this species is considered to be very rare and hard to find.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits bamboo forests and presumably breeds in the streams in bamboo forests and broadleaf forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Major Threat(s):	There are no known threats.

Major Threat(s):

There are no known threats.

Conservation Actions:	Its known range is within Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve.

Conservation Actions:

Its known range is within Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve.

Citation:	Yang Datong, Lu Shunqing 2004. Bufo ailaoanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 May 2013.
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