Aromobates capurinensis

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	AROMOBATIDAE

Scientific Name:

Species Authority:

(Pefaur, 1993)

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Sapito Ninera De Capuri

Synonym/s:

Colostethus capurinensis (Pefaur, 1993)

Red List Category & Criteria:	Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Enrique La Marca, Juan Elías García-Pérez
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.

Range Description:	This species is known only from the type locality "below Páramo El Molino, via Canaguá, on the Sierra Nevada [Sierra Nevada de Mérida], 2420m [asl], Distrito Arzobispo Chacón, Municipio Libertad, Estado Mérida, Venezuela". It occurs at an altitude of 2,350-2,700m asl. The exact limits of its distribution are not known.
Countries:	Native: Venezuela
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Population:	The population status of this species is not known.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology:	It is an inhabitant of cloud forests. The eggs are laid on land and the male protects the eggs. When hatched he carries the larvae on his back to streams where they develop further.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Major Threat(s):	Agriculture, involving both crops and livestock, as well as logging, are major threats to this species' habitat. Introduced trout are also a threat.

Major Threat(s):

Agriculture, involving both crops and livestock, as well as logging, are major threats to this species' habitat. Introduced trout are also a threat.

Conservation Actions:	This species is not known to occur in any protected areas.

Conservation Actions:

This species is not known to occur in any protected areas.

Citation:	Enrique La Marca, Juan Elías García-Pérez 2004. Aromobates capurinensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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