Gastrotheca monticola

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	HEMIPHRACTIDAE

Scientific Name:

Gastrotheca monticola

Species Authority:

Barbour and Noble, 1920

Common Name/s:

Spanish

–

Rana Marsupial

Synonym/s:

Gastrotheca marsupiata subspecies lojana Parker, 1932

Taxonomic Notes:

This genus has recently been moved from the family Hylidae (Faivovich, et al., 2005).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2010

Assessor/s:

Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Javier Icochea, Karl-Heinz Jungfer, Diego Almeida

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, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2004

–

Least Concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species occurs on the Andean slopes around the Huancabamba Depression region, Loja Province, southern Ecuador; and Amazonas, Cajamarca and Piura regions, northern Peru; at 1,900-3,130m asl.
Countries:	Native: Ecuador; Peru
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Population [top]

Population:	It was common in Loja in 2003. It is also common in Peru.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It occurs in shrubs in humid montane forests and in altered habitats. The females carry the eggs in pouches on their backs and put the tadpoles in streams.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Habitat destruction and degradation is a threat to this species, especially the forest destruction caused by agricultural activities in the locality of Celendín, Cajamarca department, Peru. Enciso et al. (2008) recently reported Aeromonas caviae and other bacteria from skin samples, where G. monticola was one of the sampled species. These authors suggest that there is a potential for infection and development of the disease if populations undergo stress.

Major Threat(s):

Habitat destruction and degradation is a threat to this species, especially the forest destruction caused by agricultural activities in the locality of Celendín, Cajamarca department, Peru. Enciso et al. (2008) recently reported Aeromonas caviae and other bacteria from skin samples, where G. monticola was one of the sampled species. These authors suggest that there is a potential for infection and development of the disease if populations undergo stress.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	In Ecuador, its geographic range overlaps with Parque Nacional Podocarpus. In Peru, it is present in some natural forest and also in Cutervo National Park and Área de Conservación Privada Huiquilla.

Conservation Actions:

In Ecuador, its geographic range overlaps with Parque Nacional Podocarpus. In Peru, it is present in some natural forest and also in Cutervo National Park and Área de Conservación Privada Huiquilla.

Citation:	Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Javier Icochea, Karl-Heinz Jungfer, Diego Almeida 2010. Gastrotheca monticola. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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