Batrachylodes gigas

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	CERATOBATRACHIDAE

Scientific Name:	Batrachylodes gigas
Species Authority:	Brown and Parker, 1970

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Fred Parker, Stephen Richards
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Data Deficient in view of the absence of recent information on its extent of occurrence, status and ecological requirements.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known only from the type locality at the southern end of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, where it has been recorded between 500 and 1,500m asl.
Countries:	Native: Papua New Guinea
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Population [top]

Population:	It is not a common species.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits tropical rainforest and reproduces by direct development, laying its eggs in trees.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is not clear what the threats are to this species. The conflict on Bougainville Island, which ended in 1997, probably minimised the impacts of logging on this species.

Major Threat(s):

It is not clear what the threats are to this species. The conflict on Bougainville Island, which ended in 1997, probably minimised the impacts of logging on this species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Its distribution on Bougainville and other islands needs to be determined, and its population status needs to be assessed. There are no protected areas within the species' range.

Conservation Actions:

Its distribution on Bougainville and other islands needs to be determined, and its population status needs to be assessed. There are no protected areas within the species' range.

Citation:	Fred Parker, Stephen Richards 2004. Batrachylodes gigas. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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