Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea 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 ranges widely along the bases of the northern coastal mountains of New Guinea (both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), up to 500m asl. Habitat and Ecology It is a censorial species that lives in tropical rainforest and on forest edges, but not in really degraded areas. It breeds by direct development. Population It occurs patchily, being common only very locally. Population Trend Stable Major Threats It is probably not threatened, except very locally. Conservation Actions Further document of its distribution is needed. It is not known from any protected areas. Citation Stephen Richards, Allen Allison 2004. Choerophryne proboscidea. In: IUCN 2012   IUCN Terms of Use