Platymantis cagayanensis

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:	Platymantis cagayanensis
Species Authority:	Brown, Alcala and Diesmos, 1999

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Arvin Diesmos, Angel Alcala, Rafe Brown, Leticia Afuang, Genevieve Gee, Katie Hampson, Mae Leonida Diesmos, Aldrin Mallari, Perry Ong, Dondi Ubaldo, Baldwin Gutierrez
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Endangered because its Extent of Occurrence is less than 5,000 km2, its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat on Luzon in the Philippines.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known thus far from several localities along the north coast of Luzon Island and on Palaui Island, in the Philippines, at elevations from sea level up to perhaps 200m asl.
Countries:	Native: Philippines
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Population [top]

Population:	It is known to be common to very common.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabits the forest floor stratum in undisturbed and disturbed lower montane and lowland forests, occasionally being found in human-controlled environments beside the forest. It breeds by direct development, and is presumed to breed and nest in the leaf-litter of the forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The major threat is habitat loss due to shifting agriculture and logging of the lowland rainforest (which is the primary habitat of this species).

Major Threat(s):

The major threat is habitat loss due to shifting agriculture and logging of the lowland rainforest (which is the primary habitat of this species).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is likely to occur in the Bawa River Watershed Forest Reserve (and Palaui Island is a marine reserve), but there is clearly a need for further protection of the remaining lowland rainforests and the rehabilitation of degraded forests, especially adjacent to protected forested parks.

Conservation Actions:

It is likely to occur in the Bawa River Watershed Forest Reserve (and Palaui Island is a marine reserve), but there is clearly a need for further protection of the remaining lowland rainforests and the rehabilitation of degraded forests, especially adjacent to protected forested parks.

Citation:	Arvin Diesmos, Angel Alcala, Rafe Brown, Leticia Afuang, Genevieve Gee, Katie Hampson, Mae Leonida Diesmos, Aldrin Mallari, Perry Ong, Dondi Ubaldo, Baldwin Gutierrez 2004. Platymantis cagayanensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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