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Overview:

Vulnerable

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List: VU Vulnerable

History:

• 1994-Insufficiently Known as Rana fasciculispina (Groombridge 1994)
• 1996-Data Deficient as Rana fasciculispina (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Threats:

• 1.1.1.2 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Crops - Small-holder farming (ongoing)
• 1.3.3.1 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood - Small-scale subsistence (ongoing)
• 1.3.3.2 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood - Selective logging (ongoing)
• 1.3.3.3 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood - Clear-cutting (past, future)
• 1.7 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Fires (ongoing)
• 9.1 Intrinsic factors - Limited dispersal (ongoing)

For info on these threat codes, see here.

Justification

Listed as Vulnerable because its extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km², its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its forest habitat in Cambodia and Thailand.

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 03-Feb-2005

Physical Description

Distribution

Range and Population

This species is known from the Cardamom region of southeastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia (Inger, 1970 and Ohler et al. 2002). It has been recorded from 150 - 1,000m asl.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Paa:

There are approximately 32 species and subspecies in this genus: P. annandalii · P. arnoldi · P. barmoachensis · P. blanfordii · P. boulengeri · P. bourreti · P. chayuensis · P. conaensis · P. ercepeae · P. exilispinosa · P. fasciculispina (Spiny-Breasted Giant Frog) · P. feae · P. hazarensis · P. jiulongensis · P. liebigii · P. liui · P. maculosa · P. medogensis · P. minica · P. mokokchungensis · P. polunini · P. rarica · P. robertingeri · P. rostandi · P. shini · P. spinosa · P. sternosignata · P. taihangnicus · P. verrucospinosa · P. vicina · P. yei · P. yunnanensis

Bibliography

• Amphibian Data. For additional documentation about utilization and CITES status, click on the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) link above to see the GAA account for this species or alternatively follow this link to the search function on the Global Amphibian Assessment web site and run your own search.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Humphrey, S.R. and Bain, J.R. 1990. Endangered Animals of Thailand. Sandhill Crane Press, Florida.
• Inger, R.F. 1970. A new species of frog of the genus Rana from Thailand. Fieldiana: Zoology 51(14): 169-174.
• OEPP - Office of Environmental Planning and Policy [of Thailand]. 1997. Proceedings Conference Status Biological Resources in Thailand 1996. Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Bangkok.
• Ohler, A., Swan, S.R. and Daltry, J.C. 2002. A recent survey of the amphibian fauna of the Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia with descriptions of three new species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 50(2): 465-482.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 11, 2006.
• van Dijk, P.P. & Swan, S. 2004. Paa fasciculispina. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 665124
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1447623
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 139316