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Amietophrynus asmarae

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AMPHIBIA ANURA BUFONIDAE

Scientific Name: Amietophrynus asmarae
Species Authority: (Tandy, Bogart, Largen and Feener, 1982)
Common Name/s:
English – Asmara Toad
Synonym/s:
Bufo asmarae Tandy, Bogart, Largen and Feener, 1982

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2004
Assessor/s: Mills Tandy, Malcolm Largen
Reviewer/s: Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its relatively wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: This species occurs in the highlands of Ethiopia (on both sides of the Rift Valley) and Eritrea. It is known with certainty only between 1,875 and 3,000m asl. Records down to 200m asl in Eritrea and 600m asl in southeastern Ethiopia require confirmation.
Countries:
Native:
Eritrea; Ethiopia
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Population [top]

Population: It is a locally common species.
Population Trend: Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: It is a species of montane grassland. There is some suggestion that the species might extend into arid savannah at lower elevations, but this requires confirmation. It breeds in permanent and probably also temporary pools (including in artificially maintained livestock-watering sites) in montane grassland.
Systems: Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): Populations of this species are presumably impacted by environmental degradation due to human settlement and agricultural encroachment. However, this species is probably adaptable, and its habitat is not declining very rapidly, and so it is unlikely to be seriously at risk.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions: It is not known from any protected areas.
Citation: Mills Tandy, Malcolm Largen 2004. Amietophrynus asmarae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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