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Cochranella geijskesi
family: Centrolenidae
subfamily: Centroleninae

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Suriname
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IUCN (Red List) status: Data Deficient (DD).
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 only from the type locality on the southern slope of the Wilhelmina Mountains, Suriname. The type locality is within the range of 500-600m asl.

Habitat and Ecology

The type locality is within primary forest. There is no information regarding this species' breeding habits, though it presumably breeds in streams.

Population

This species is known from only one specimen. Recent surveys of areas close to the type locality have not found this species but the type locality itself has not been resurveyed.

Population Trend

Unknown

Major Threats

There are no threats to this species at present as it occurs in a very isolated area.

Conservation Actions

The type locality is not within a protected area. More research into the species' extent of occurrence, ecological requirements and population status is needed.

Citation

Robert Reynolds, Marinus Hoogmoed, Ross MacCulloch, Philippe Gaucher 2004. Cochranella geijskesi. In: IUCN 2012

 

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