Kassina lamottei

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	HYPEROLIIDAE

Scientific Name:

Kassina lamottei

Species Authority:

Schiøtz, 1967

Common Name/s:

English

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Rainforest Running Frog

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Mark-Oliver Rödel, Arne Schiøtz
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Vulnerable because its Extent of Occurrence is probably less than 20,000 km2, it is known from fewer than ten locations, and the quality and extent of its forest habitat in Cote d'Ivoire is declining.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is only known from western and south-western Côte d'Ivoire, from the Mount Nimba area, south to the Taï National Park. It is likely to occur in Liberia and Guinea, but there have not so far been any records. Records from Sierra Leone are in error.
Countries:	Native: Côte d'Ivoire
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Population [top]

Population:	It is a very localized species, but nonetheless abundant where it occurs.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is a terrestrial species inhabiting lowland rainforest, and living only in mature and closed-canopy forest. It breeds in large temporary forest pools.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is probably suffering from severe deforestation as a result of agricultural expansion, logging, and growing human settlements. The trend towards decreasing rainfall seriously affects this species in particular, since it lives in a sandy area, and low rainfall leads to drying out of its breeding ponds.

Major Threat(s):

It is probably suffering from severe deforestation as a result of agricultural expansion, logging, and growing human settlements. The trend towards decreasing rainfall seriously affects this species in particular, since it lives in a sandy area, and low rainfall leads to drying out of its breeding ponds.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It occurs in Taï National Park and Cavally Classified Forest.

Conservation Actions:

It occurs in Taï National Park and Cavally Classified Forest.

Citation:	Mark-Oliver Rödel, Arne Schiøtz 2004. Kassina lamottei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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