Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Ethiopia View distribution map using BerkeleyMapper.

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IUCN (Red List) status: Least Concern (LC).
For Red List information on this species, see the IUCN species account.

From the IUCN Red List Species Account:   Range Description This species occurs in the highlands of Ethiopia (on both sides of the Rift Valley) and Eritrea. It is known with certainty only between 1,875 and 3,000m asl. Records down to 200m asl in Eritrea and 600m asl in southeastern Ethiopia require confirmation. Habitat and Ecology It is a species of montane grassland. There is some suggestion that the species might extend into arid savannah at lower elevations, but this requires confirmation. It breeds in permanent and probably also temporary pools (including in artificially maintained livestock-watering sites) in montane grassland. Population It is a locally common species. Population Trend Unknown Major Threats Populations of this species are presumably impacted by environmental degradation due to human settlement and agricultural encroachment. However, this species is probably adaptable, and its habitat is not declining very rapidly, and so it is unlikely to be seriously at risk. Conservation Actions It is not known from any protected areas. Citation Mills Tandy, Malcolm Largen 2004. Amietophrynus asmarae. In: IUCN 2012   IUCN Terms of Use