Eleutherodactylus parapelates
| Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
| ANIMALIA |
CHORDATA |
AMPHIBIA |
ANURA |
ELEUTHERODACTYLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: |
Eleutherodactylus parapelates |
| Species Authority: |
Hedges and Thomas, 1987 |
Assessment Information
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| Red List Category & Criteria: |
Critically Endangered
A3c
ver 3.1
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| Year Published: |
2010 |
| Assessor/s: |
Blair Hedges, Richard Thomas, Robert Powell |
| Reviewer/s: |
Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young) |
| Contributor/s: |
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Justification:
Listed as Critically Endangered because of an expected population decline of greater than 80% over the next ten years, predicted from severe degradation of the species' habitat on the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti.
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| History: |
| 2004 |
– |
Critically Endangered
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Geographic Range
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Population
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| Population: |
It was known to be moderately common in its original habitat, which has now largely disappeared from within its range. It was last recorded in 1984 (Hedges and Díaz 2009).
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| Population Trend: |
Unknown
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Habitat and Ecology
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| Habitat and Ecology: |
This is a fossorial species that inhabits closed forest; males call from shallow, underground chambers. The eggs are also laid underground and it breeds by direct development.
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| Systems: |
Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): |
The major threat is habitat loss and degradation primarily due to logging (charcoal collection) by local people and slash-and-burn agriculture.
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Conservation Actions
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| Conservation Actions: |
It is known to occur in the Parc National Macaya, but there is no management of this area for conservation, and the habitat continues to be destroyed. Urgent site-based action is required in the Massif de la Hotte to conserve the remaining habitat in the area, in order to ensure the persistence of this species as well as other threatened amphibians known only from this area. Survey work is also necessary to determine the current population status of this species.
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