Craugastor berkenbuschii

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	CRAUGASTORIDAE

Scientific Name:

Craugastor berkenbuschii

Species Authority:

(Peters, 1870)

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Rana-ladrona De Berkenbusch

Taxonomic Notes:

This species was previously within the genus Eleutherodactylus (Crawford and Smith 2005).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Near Threatened ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Georgina Santos-Barrera, Oscar Flores-Villela
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Near Threatened since although this species is still relatively widely distributed, it depends on areas of cloud forest habitat, and so its Area of Occupancy is probably not much greater than 2,000 km2, and the extent and quality of its habitat is rapidly declining, thus making the species close to qualifying for Vulnerable.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species occurs from the Atlantic foothills and slopes of south-eastern San Luis Potosi and northern Veracruz, to northern Oaxaca to the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. It is known from 400-1,900m asl.
Countries:	Native: Mexico
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Population [top]

Population:	This is a common species, although recent surveys in Oaxaca, Mexico, indicate that it has disappeared from some sites.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It prefers rocky streams in premontane and lower montane wet forests, and is a direct developing species.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Intense and rapid disappearance of cloud forests is a major threat. Recently documented declines in Oaxaca could be due to chytridiomycosis.

Major Threat(s):

Intense and rapid disappearance of cloud forests is a major threat. Recently documented declines in Oaxaca could be due to chytridiomycosis.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Its range does not include any protected areas and urgent protection of the cloud forest remnants in Mexico is required. Further work should be conducted to determine whether or not the recently documented declines are due to chytridiomycosis. This species is protected by Mexican law under the "Special Protection" category (Pr).

Conservation Actions:

Its range does not include any protected areas and urgent protection of the cloud forest remnants in Mexico is required. Further work should be conducted to determine whether or not the recently documented declines are due to chytridiomycosis. This species is protected by Mexican law under the "Special Protection" category (Pr).

Citation:	Georgina Santos-Barrera, Oscar Flores-Villela 2004. Craugastor berkenbuschii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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