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Hypsiboas balzani
| family: Hylidae subfamily: Hylinae |
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Bolivia
IUCN (Red List) status: Least Concern (LC). |
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Range Description This species occurs on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, Peru, Departamentos Cuzco and Puno; Bolivia, Departamentos La Paz, Cochabamba and Sanata Cruz. Its altitudinal range is 450-2,210m asl. Habitat and Ecology Its habitat is cloud and Yungas forest, breeds in slow flowing streams and ditches. It is present in disturbed habitat. Population It is very common. Population Trend Stable Major Threats There are no major threats to this species. Conservation Actions Present in many protected areas in Bolivia and Parque Nacional Manu in Peru. Taxonomic Notes This species was previously within the genus Hyla but has recently been moved to the resurrected genus Hypsiboas (Faivovich, et al., 2005). This form is a complex of more than one species; one of the species involved needs to be called Hypsiboas callipleura (J. Köhler pers comm). Citation Ariadne Angulo, Steffen reichle, Jörn Köhler, Wilfredo Arizabal 2004. Hypsiboas balzani. In: IUCN 2012
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