Hyloscirtus lynchi

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	HYLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Hyloscirtus lynchi
Species Authority:	(Ruíz-Carranza and Ardila-Robayo, 1991)
Taxonomic Notes:	This species was previously within the genus Hyla but has recently been moved to the resurrected genus Hyloscirtus (Faivovich et al. 2005).

Red List Category & Criteria:	Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	María Cristina Ardila-Robayo, Jose Vicente Rueda
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Endangered because its Extent of Occurrence is less than 5,000 km2, its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat on the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes.

Range Description:	This species occurs on the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental in the department of Santander, Colombia, at 2,540-2,700m asl. It may be more widely distributed than existing records indicate.
Countries:	Native: Colombia
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Population:	It is known to be common, although there has been no survey work for this species since 1998.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology:	It lives in streams in cloud forest, but only in old growth forest. The eggs are laid on vegetation, and the tadpoles larvae in streams.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Major Threat(s):	Habitat loss due to agriculture and cattle ranching, and predation by introduced trout, are the major threats to this species.

Major Threat(s):

Habitat loss due to agriculture and cattle ranching, and predation by introduced trout, are the major threats to this species.

Conservation Actions:	It does not occur in any protected areas, and there is an urgent need for expanded protection of remaining forest habitats in the Colombian Andes.

Conservation Actions:

It does not occur in any protected areas, and there is an urgent need for expanded protection of remaining forest habitats in the Colombian Andes.

Citation:	María Cristina Ardila-Robayo, Jose Vicente Rueda 2004. Hyloscirtus lynchi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2013.
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