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Crossodactylodes izecksohni
| family: Uncertain (Hyloidea) |
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Brazil
View distribution map using BerkeleyMapper. IUCN (Red List) status: Near Threatened (NT).
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 vicinity of Santa Teresa, in the state of Espírito Santo, south-eastern Brazil, at 675m asl, although it might occur more widely.
Habitat and Ecology
Its habitat is terrestrial and epiphytic bromeliads near the ground inside forests and on the forest edge, but not in more degraded habitats. Breeding is by larval development in bromeliads.
Population
It is a common species.
Population Trend
Stable
Major Threats
The area where it is found is quite well protected (as a biological reserve), but habitat loss is taking place nearby, due to agricultural development, wood plantations, bromeliad-collecting, logging, human settlement and tourism.
Conservation Actions
It occurs in the Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi.
Citation
Débora Silvano, Oswaldo Luiz Peixoto 2004. Crossodactylodes izecksohni. In: IUCN 2012
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