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Rhacophorus dorsoviridis

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AMPHIBIA ANURA RHACOPHORIDAE

Scientific Name: Rhacophorus dorsoviridis
Species Authority: Bourret, 1937
Synonym/s:
Polypedates dorsoviridis (Bourret, 1937)
Rhacophorus schlegelii Bourret, 1937 subspecies dorsoviridis

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published: 2004
Assessor/s: Annemarie Ohler, Steven Swan
Reviewer/s: Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification:
Listed as Data Deficient in view of continuing uncertainties as to its extent of occurrence, status and ecological requirements.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: This species is known only from Mount Fan Si Pan, in northern Viet Nam, from 1,600-2,100m asl.
Countries:
Native:
Viet Nam
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Population [top]

Population: It is reportedly common during breeding, although it has only been recorded once since it was first described over sixty years ago.
Population Trend: Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: It was recorded from lower and upper montane evergreen forest, and was also observed breeding around a buffalo wallow in heavily degraded forest.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): The main threats to this species are presumably encroachment of agriculture, and forest clearance through subsistence collection of wood.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions: Its one known location is within Hoang Lien Son National Park.
Citation: Annemarie Ohler, Steven Swan 2004. Rhacophorus dorsoviridis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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