Sachatamia albomaculata

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	CENTROLENIDAE

Scientific Name:

Sachatamia albomaculata

Species Authority:

(Taylor, 1949)

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Ranita De Cristal

Synonym/s:

Cochranella albomaculata (Taylor, 1949)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2010

Assessor/s:

Frank Solís, Roberto Ibáñez, Gerardo Chaves, Jay Savage, César Jaramillo, Querube Fuenmayor, Fernando Castro, Taran Grant, Erik Wild, Brian Kubiki, Javier Sunyer

Reviewer/s:

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

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2004

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Least Concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known from humid lowlands and premontane slopes from north-central Honduras to western Colombia (Chocó, Risaralda and Antioquia departments) and northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Imbabura provinces), from sea level to 1,500m asl.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador (Ecuador (mainland)); Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is common and regularly encountered.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits humid lowland and montane forest, and is generally observed in bushes and trees along forest streams. Populations can persist alond streams in pastures with minimal riparian growth (Brian Kubicki pers. comm. 2007). The larvae develop in streams. It is restricted to forest covered streams.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	General habitat loss due to the destruction of natural forests is a localized threat to the species habitat, but at present there are no major threats to the species.

Major Threat(s):

General habitat loss due to the destruction of natural forests is a localized threat to the species habitat, but at present there are no major threats to the species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species has been recorded from many protected areas in Costa Rica and Panama. It was recently recorded from the Parque Nacional Saslaya in Nicaragua (Köhler et al., 2004).

Conservation Actions:

This species has been recorded from many protected areas in Costa Rica and Panama. It was recently recorded from the Parque Nacional Saslaya in Nicaragua (Köhler et al., 2004).

Citation:	Frank Solís, Roberto Ibáñez, Gerardo Chaves, Jay Savage, César Jaramillo, Querube Fuenmayor, Fernando Castro, Taran Grant, Erik Wild, Brian Kubiki, Javier Sunyer 2010. Sachatamia albomaculata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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