Eleutherodactylus corona

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	ELEUTHERODACTYLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Eleutherodactylus corona
Species Authority:	Hedges and Thomas, 1992

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Critically Endangered A3c; B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Blair Hedges, Richard Thomas
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Critically Endangered because a population decline of greater than 80% over the next ten years, is predicted from severe degradation of the species' habitat: and because its Extent of Occurrence is less than 100km2 and its Area of Occupancy is less than 10km2, all individuals are in a single population, and the extent of its forest habitat on the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, is declining.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known from only one site on the Massif de la Hotte, in Haiti, at 1,120m asl.
Countries:	Native: Haiti
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Population [top]

Population:	It is known from fewer than 10 specimens, and is probably very rare.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is an arboreal species, occurring in high-elevation cloud forest. It has been recorded only from forest edge but this is probably not suitable habitat. Males call from bromeliads or orchids, which they appear to require for reproduction. The species breeds by direct development.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Severe habitat destruction is taking place in its range, primarily due to logging by local people (charcoaling) and slash-and-burn agriculture.

Major Threat(s):

Severe habitat destruction is taking place in its range, primarily due to logging by local people (charcoaling) and slash-and-burn agriculture.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The species occurs only in the Parc National Macaya, but there is no management of this area for conservation, and the habitat continues to be destroyed. Urgent site-based action is required in the Massif de la Hotte to conserve the remaining habitat in the area, in order to ensure the persistence of this species as well as other threatened amphibians known only from this area. Survey work is required to determine the population status of this species.

Conservation Actions:

The species occurs only in the Parc National Macaya, but there is no management of this area for conservation, and the habitat continues to be destroyed. Urgent site-based action is required in the Massif de la Hotte to conserve the remaining habitat in the area, in order to ensure the persistence of this species as well as other threatened amphibians known only from this area. Survey work is required to determine the population status of this species.

Citation:	Blair Hedges, Richard Thomas 2004. Eleutherodactylus corona. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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