Aglyptodactylus securifer
| Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
| ANIMALIA |
CHORDATA |
AMPHIBIA |
ANURA |
MANTELLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: |
Aglyptodactylus securifer |
| Species Authority: |
Glaw, Vences, Böhme, 1998 |
Assessment Information
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| Red List Category & Criteria: |
Least Concern
ver 3.1
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| Year Published: |
2004 |
| Assessor/s: |
Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences |
| Reviewer/s: |
Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox) |
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Justification:
Listed as Least Concern in view of its presumed 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.
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Geographic Range
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| Range Description: |
This species in western, northwestern and northern Madagascar, with records from the following localities: Kirindy Forest (not Kirindy-Mitea); Sahamalaza Peninsula (Berara); Tsingy de Bemahara; Benavony; Montagne des Français and Fôret D'Ambre Special Reserve (D'Cruze et al. 2008). It was recently described and so its true geographic range is still not very well known, and it probably occurs between the recorded localities. Populations from west Madagascar previously attributed to Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis might belong to this species. It is a low-altitude, occurring below 300m asl. |
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Population
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| Population: |
It is probably common, but it is hard to find when it is not breeding.
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| Population Trend: |
Decreasing
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Habitat and Ecology
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| Habitat and Ecology: |
It lives in dry and humid tropical forests, and also in somewhat degraded forest, but it is not found outside the forest. It breeds in pools or marshy areas, both temporary and permanent, including still pools in dried up riverbeds.
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| Systems: |
Terrestrial; Freshwater |
| Major Threat(s): |
Its forest habitat is receding due to subsistence agriculture, timber extraction, charcoal manufacture, and livestock grazing, fires and expanding human settlements.
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Conservation Actions
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| Conservation Actions: |
It occurs in the Réserve Spéciale de Manongarivo; Parc National Tsingy de Bemahara; and Fôret D'Ambre Special Reserve (D'Cruze et al. 2008).
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