Hyloscirtus lindae

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	HYLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Hyloscirtus lindae
Species Authority:	(Duellman and Altig, 1978)
Taxonomic Notes:	This species was previously included in the genus Hyla but has recently been moved to the resurrected genus Hyloscirtus (Faivovich et al. 2005).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable B1ab(iii) ver 3.1

Year Published:

2010

Assessor/s:

Diego Almeida, Wilmar Bolívar, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron

Reviewer/s:

Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Listed as Vulnerable because its Extent of Occurrence is less than 20,000 km2, its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its forest habitat in the Ecuadorian and Colombian Andes.

History:

2004

–

Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species occurs on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in southern Colombia (in Caquetá and Putumayo Departments) and Ecuador (south to Morona Province). It ranges from 2,000-2,600m asl.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Ecuador
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Population [top]

Population:	It is a common species.
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It lives in upper humid montane forest, and it also survives in pastureland and other altered habitats. However, although it is adaptable, it probably cannot tolerate extremely severe habitat clearance, leading to a very open landscape. It is associated with creeks and breeds in streams. Individuals have been found on vegetation along small creeks within forests; tadpoles have been collected in bodies of water with limited movement (Mueses-Cisneros, 2005).
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Habitat and Ecology:

It lives in upper humid montane forest, and it also survives in pastureland and other altered habitats. However, although it is adaptable, it probably cannot tolerate extremely severe habitat clearance, leading to a very open landscape. It is associated with creeks and breeds in streams. Individuals have been found on vegetation along small creeks within forests; tadpoles have been collected in bodies of water with limited movement (Mueses-Cisneros, 2005).

Systems:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The major threats are habitat loss from agricultural development, planting of illegal crops, logging, and human settlement, and pollution resulting from the spraying of illegal crops. The species has a narrow altitudinal range, and lives in habitats where catastrophic extinctions have occurred in other frog species with stream-dwelling tadpoles, perhaps due to chytridiomycosis. Mueses-Cisneros (2005) reports that all tadpoles examined in his study lack keratin in their mouthparts; however, he suggests that this is not necessarily related to chytrid infection.

Major Threat(s):

The major threats are habitat loss from agricultural development, planting of illegal crops, logging, and human settlement, and pollution resulting from the spraying of illegal crops. The species has a narrow altitudinal range, and lives in habitats where catastrophic extinctions have occurred in other frog species with stream-dwelling tadpoles, perhaps due to chytridiomycosis. Mueses-Cisneros (2005) reports that all tadpoles examined in his study lack keratin in their mouthparts; however, he suggests that this is not necessarily related to chytrid infection.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It occurs in several protected areas in Ecuador, including Parque Nacional Llanganates and Parque Nacional Sangay, but is apparently not recorded from any in Colombia. There is a need for close population monitoring of this species, given the potential threat of chytridiomycosis.

Conservation Actions:

It occurs in several protected areas in Ecuador, including Parque Nacional Llanganates and Parque Nacional Sangay, but is apparently not recorded from any in Colombia. There is a need for close population monitoring of this species, given the potential threat of chytridiomycosis.

Bibliography [top]

	Duellman, W.E. and Altig, R. 1978. New species of tree frogs (family Hylidae) from the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Herpetologica: 177-185. Faivovich, J., Haddad, C.F.B., Garcia, P.C.O., Frost, D.R., Campbell, J.A. and Wheeler, W.C. 2005. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: 1-240. IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 29 June 2010). Mueses-Cisneros, J.J. 2005. Fauna Anfibia del Valle de Sibundoy, Putumayo-Colombia. The Amphibian Fauna of the Valle de Sibundoy, Putumayo-Colombia. Caldasia 27(2): 229-242. Ruiz-Carranza, P.M. and Lynch, J.D. 1982. Dos nuevas especies de Hyla (Amphibia: Anura) de Colombia, con aportes al conocimiento de Hyla bogotensis. Caldasia: 647-671. Ruiz-Carranza, P.M., Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Lynch, J.D. 1996. Lista actualizada de la fauna de Amphibia de Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales: 365-415.

Duellman, W.E. and Altig, R. 1978. New species of tree frogs (family Hylidae) from the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Herpetologica: 177-185.

Faivovich, J., Haddad, C.F.B., Garcia, P.C.O., Frost, D.R., Campbell, J.A. and Wheeler, W.C. 2005. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: 1-240.

IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 29 June 2010).

Mueses-Cisneros, J.J. 2005. Fauna Anfibia del Valle de Sibundoy, Putumayo-Colombia. The Amphibian Fauna of the Valle de Sibundoy, Putumayo-Colombia. Caldasia 27(2): 229-242.

Ruiz-Carranza, P.M. and Lynch, J.D. 1982. Dos nuevas especies de Hyla (Amphibia: Anura) de Colombia, con aportes al conocimiento de Hyla bogotensis. Caldasia: 647-671.

Ruiz-Carranza, P.M., Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Lynch, J.D. 1996. Lista actualizada de la fauna de Amphibia de Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales: 365-415.

Citation:	Diego Almeida, Wilmar Bolívar, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron 2010. Hyloscirtus lindae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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