Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Amphibia | Anura | Ceratobatrachidae |
Scientific Name: | Cornufer trossulus Brown and Myers, 1949 |
Synonym(s): |
Batrachylodes trossulus Brown and Myers, 1949
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2004 |
Date Assessed: | 2004-04-30 |
Annotations: |
Needs updating
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Assessor(s): | Fred Parker, Stephen Richards |
Reviewer(s): | Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox) |
Justification: Listed as Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is less than 20,000 km2, it is common and adaptable with a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. |
Range Description: | This species is known from Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea), Choiseul and Isabel Islands, Solomon Islands. It occurs up to 500m asl. |
Countries occurrence: | Native: Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands |
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Population: | It is an extremely abundant species in lowland rainforest and logged habitat, and appears to be more abundant in disturbed compared to pristine forest. | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This species inhabits forest floor in lowland and foothill rainforest (S. Richards pers. obs.). It appears to be able to persist in secondary forest, rural gardens, villages etc. It is a species that breeds by direct development and lays its eggs on the ground. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | There are none known and this species appears to be able to persist in secondary forest and other disturbed habitats. |
Conservation Actions: | The species' range in the Solomon Islands needs to be documented. Its range does not include any protected areas. |
Citation: | Fred Parker, Stephen Richards. 2004. Cornufer trossulus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58239A11756031. . Downloaded on 22 April 2018. |
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