Craugastor megacephalus

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 megacephalus
Species Authority:	(Cope, 1875)
Taxonomic Notes:	This species was formerly allocated to the genus Eleutherodactylus (Crawford and Smith, 2005). Craugastor megacephalus (Cope, 1875), an intermediate-sized frog ranging from Honduras to central Panama, is the more common species to which the name biporcatus has usually been applied (Savage and Myers 2002).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2010

Assessor/s:

Frank Solís, Roberto Ibáñez, Gerardo Chaves, Larry David Wilson, Federico Bolaños, Javier Sunyer

Reviewer/s:

Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

History:

2004

–

Least Concern

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species can be found in the Atlantic versant from extreme southeastern Honduras to western Panama (including the Bocas del Toro Islands), at elevations of 1-1,200m asl.
Countries:	Native: Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is relatively common in Costa Rica, although populations have shown some decline at La Selva (Federico Bolaños, pers. comm.; Whitfield et al., 2007). It is rare in Honduras and Panama at the edges of its range.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits humid lowland and montane forest. It reproduces in the leaf-litter via direct development and it tolerates habitat disturbances.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Habitat loss by the destruction of natural forests is a major threat to this species. At La Selva, declines seem to be driven by climate-driven reductions in quantity of standing leaf litter (Whitfield et al., 2007).

Major Threat(s):

Habitat loss by the destruction of natural forests is a major threat to this species. At La Selva, declines seem to be driven by climate-driven reductions in quantity of standing leaf litter (Whitfield et al., 2007).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is found in several protected areas.

Conservation Actions:

It is found in several protected areas.

Citation:	Frank Solís, Roberto Ibáñez, Gerardo Chaves, Larry David Wilson, Federico Bolaños, Javier Sunyer 2010. Craugastor megacephalus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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