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Kassinula wittei

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AMPHIBIA ANURA HYPEROLIIDAE

Scientific Name: Kassinula wittei
Species Authority: Laurent, 1940

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2004
Assessor/s: Arne Schiøtz, John Poynton
Reviewer/s: Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its relatively wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: This species is known only from western and northern Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is expected to occur in eastern Angola, but there have not yet been any records.
Countries:
Native:
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Zambia
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Population [top]

Population: Although it is a very secretive species, it is abundant in suitable sites.
Population Trend: Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: It is associated with flooded grassland in dense, moist savannah. Its breeding is unknown, but it presumably takes place in flooded grassland.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): It occurs in a region with minimal human impacts, and it is unlikely to be significantly threatened.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions: It probably occurs in several protected areas.
Citation: Arne Schiøtz, John Poynton 2004. Kassinula wittei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2013.
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