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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Near Threatened |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This species is known from subtropical montane forests (Albuja and Patterson 1996, Lunde and Pacheco 2003, Gardner 2008). The diet of this species consists of invertebrates including lepidopteran larvae, centipedes and arachnids, as well as small vertebrates (birds), and vegetation (Barkley and Whitaker 1984). Other information on the ecology of this species is unknown, but this species appears mostly terrestrial, being trapped under tree roots and along small streams near grasslands or wet areas, and is crepuscular or nocturnal (Osgood 1921, Tate 1931, Barkley and Whitaker 1984). It prefers cool, wet areas covered by thick vegetation.
Range:
This species is found in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru (Brown 2004, Gardner 2008). The species occurs between 1,600 m asl (Anthony 1924) and 3,100 m asl (Bublitz 1987, Barnett 1991). Lunde and Pacheco (2003) gave the southern record as San Andres de Cutervo, Cajamarca, Peru, at 6° 13’ S, 78° 40’ W, and 2350 m asl. The Huancabamba depression in northern Peru does not appear to be a limit to its southern distribution (Lunde and Pacheco 2003).
Conservation:
This species occurs in Cajas National Park and the nearby Mazán Ecological Reserve, south-central Ecuador (Barnett 1999). This species needs further research into its distribution, population and natural history.