Forest bright-eyed frog - Boophis erythrodactylus
( Guibé, 1953 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It is a species of rainforest, including disturbed sites adjacent to rainforest. It breeds in wide forest streams.

Range:
This species is known with certainty only from small number localities in central eastern Madagascar (Ranomafana, Mantadia and Mandraka), and one western record (Mahajeby Forest) at which its recorded altitudinal range is 1,000-1,100 m asl. Records from the extreme north and south on the previously published range map are treated as erroneous and have been removed.

Conservation:
Conservation Actions
It occurs in the Ranomafana and Mantadia National Parks.

Research Needed
Further research is essential to fully understand the distribution, origin, type and virulence of Bd lineages found in Madagascar (Bletz et al. 2015).

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