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IUCN (Red List) status: Endangered (EN).
For Red List information on this species, see the IUCN species account.

From the IUCN Red List Species Account:   Range Description This species is known with certainty only from three locations: Kudremukh National Park, and Jog (Shimoga) and Kemphole Ghats, all in Karnataka, in the Western Ghats of India (though it may occur a little more widely). It has been collected at an elevation of 1,200m asl. Habitat and Ecology It is semi-aquatic and inhabits marshes within moist tropical forest (and is not present in very disturbed forest). There is little information available on the species' ecology or breeding habitats, though it presumably breeds by larval development in water. Population It is not an uncommon species. Population Trend Decreasing Major Threats Habitat loss and degradation as a result of logging, agriculture, and mining (in Kudremukh) is the major threat to this species. Conservation Actions It has been recorded from Kudremukh National Park in Karnataka, although the other localities are apparently unprotected. It is included in national legislation. Citation S.D. Biju, Sushil Dutta, Robert Inger 2004. Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris. In: IUCN 2012   IUCN Terms of Use