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Aark Species Prioritization Tool (Indonesia Indonesian amphibian species workshop, July 2009 Page 1 Species in the In Situ Research Role Species that for one or more reasons require further in situ research to be carried out as part of the conservation action for the species. One or more critical pieces of information is not known at this time. Protected Population Over- Species Extinction Risk Threat Mitigation Habitat Recovery collection Comments Barbourula kalimantanensis Endangered (EN) Threats are being Yes Unknown No Occurs very close to protected habitat and managed likely that the area is also protected. Illegal gold mining in the area is the major threat. Although protected in theory, the likelihood that gold mining activity will increase is very high. The species does not have lungs. The species is ussed locally for food and the bones are used against magic. Recommended that the EDGE score be re- evaluated based on new information. Leptophryne cruentata Critically Endangered (CR) Threats are being Yes Unknown No Only known in national park of gunung gede Bufo sumatranus Critically Endangered (CR) Threats unknown Unknown No Only known from one museum specmen. Limnonectes blythii Near Threatened (NT) Threats unknown Yes Yes Yes Hard to find food in the protected area; male Nyctixalus margaritifer Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes No Unknown Lives in trees with water. Rhacophorus margaritifer Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Collected for the pet trade. Philautus similis Endangered (EN) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Found in montain area in Krinci Seblat National Park. Litoria quadrilineata Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Found in the national park. Borneophrys edwardinae Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Leptolalax hamidi Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Quite common. Oreophryne celebensis Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Hylarana debussyi Data Deficient (DD) Threats unknown Unknown Unknown No Found in Batanta, Mamberamo, Arfak, Halmahera. Rhacophorus fasciatus Vulnerable (VU) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Found in protected area. Rhacophorus monticola Near Threatened (NT) Threats are being Yes Unknown No Found in protected area in national park. Litoria chloronota Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Used locally as a food source and is a require conservation common species in the Arfak Mountains area, action but not all of Papua. Litoria pratti Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Yes No Found in Arfak. Used as subsistence food by protected local people. Hylarana grisea Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Local people eat this species. It lives in require conservation special habitats in clean rivers. action Ansonia hanitschi Near Threatened (NT) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Indonesian amphibian species workshop, July 2009 Page 2 Ansonia longidigita Near Threatened (NT) Threats unknown Unknown Unknown No Is found near protected habitat. Leptolalax dringi Near Threatened (NT) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Kalophrynus subterrestris Near Threatened (NT) Threats unknown Unknown Unknown No Limnonectes kadarsani Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Lechriodus aganoposis Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Ansonia glandulosa Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in protected area (Kerinci Seblat Bufo valhallae Data Deficient (DD) Only known from holotype, Sabang Island in Aceh. Sabahphrynus maculatus Data Deficient (DD) Platymantis batantae Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Yes No Found in protected areas on Waigeo and protected Batanta Islands (Keliopas Krey, pers comm). Platymantis bimaculatus Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Found in Wondiwoi. Is a common species Platymantis cheesmanae Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Found in Cyclops Mountain. Is a common require conservation species action Platymantis wuenscheorum Data Deficient (DD) Limnonectes kenepaiensis Data Deficient (DD) Yes Ask Pak Djoko for additional information. Limnonectes palavanensis Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Yes No Found in Kerinci Seblat National Park and Occidozyga floresiana Data Deficient (DD) Ask LIPI for additional information. Hyla javana Data Deficient (DD) Litoria aruensis Data Deficient (DD) Aru Islands and Misool Island, but knot known by participants Litoria biakensis Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards or James Menzies for additional information. Litoria brongersmai Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria bulmeri Data Deficient (DD) Known from Central Mountain, but nothing else known. Litoria capitula Data Deficient (DD) From Tanimbar Island. Litoria contrastens Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Found in Vogelkop, Western Papua. require conservation action Litoria dorsivena Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Vogelkop, Western Papua. Litoria elkeae Data Deficient (DD) Litoria eucnemis Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Litoria everetti Data Deficient (DD) Litoria fluviatilis Data Deficient (DD) Litoria fuscula Data Deficient (DD) Indonesian amphibian species workshop, July 2009 Page 3 Litoria graminea Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Found in protected areas in require conservation Mamberamo,Waropem, Marauke and many action other places (Keliopas Krey, pers comm). Litoria granti Data Deficient (DD) Litoria humboldtorum Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Unknown Unknown No Litoria humeralis Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Unknown Unknown No Found in the Yapen area. Litoria hunti Data Deficient (DD) Litoria leucova Data Deficient (DD) Litoria longicrus Data Deficient (DD) Litoria macki Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria majikthise Data Deficient (DD) Litoria megalops Data Deficient (DD) Litoria montana Data Deficient (DD) Yes Litoria mucro Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Yes No Found in Wageo, Mamberamo (by Steve Litoria multicolor Data Deficient (DD) Yes Litoria mystax Data Deficient (DD) Litoria obtusirostris Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria oktediensis Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria purpureolata Data Deficient (DD) Species does not Yes Yes No Found in protected area in Mamberamo require conservation (Keliopas Krey, pers comm). action Litoria rara Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria richardsi Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria sanguinolenta Data Deficient (DD) Yes Litoria scabra Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Litoria umarensis Data Deficient (DD) Litoria umbonata Data Deficient (DD) Litoria vagabunda Data Deficient (DD) Litoria verae Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Unknown No Found in protected area in Wondiwoi protected Mountains and Bintuni (Keliopas Krey, pers comm). Litoria wapogaensis Data Deficient (DD) Litoria wollastoni Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Limnodynastes convexiusculus Least Concern (LC) Species is effectively Yes Unknown No Local people believe that secretions from its Leptobrachella natunae Data Deficient (DD) Xenophrys parallela Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Yes No Found in Batang Gadis National Park. It is Albericus laurini Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Wondiwoi. Albericus variegatus Data Deficient (DD) Found in Maruke. Indonesian amphibian species workshop, July 2009 Page 4 Austrochaperina kosarek Data Deficient (DD) Austrochaperina macrorhyncha Least Concern (LC) Threats unknown Yes Unknown No Found in protected area in national park in Calluella brooksii Data Deficient (DD) Calluella volzi Data Deficient (DD) Species is effectively Yes Yes No Found in protected area in Batang Toru; Callulops boettgeri Data Deficient (DD) Found in Halmahera. Callulops dubius Data Deficient (DD) Found in Halmahera. Callulops eurydactylus Data Deficient (DD) Found in Fakfak, Papua. Callulops fuscus Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Ambon, Seram. Callulops pullifer Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in protected area. Cophixalus balbus Data Deficient (DD) Cophixalus montanus Data Deficient (DD) Found in Halmahera and Maluku Province. Cophixalus tetzlaffi Data Deficient (DD) Found in Fakfak, Papua; Vogelkop Peninsula. Cophixalus tridactylus Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in protected area in Wondiwoi (Keliopas Krey, pers comm). Copiula exspectata Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Yapen. Copiula major Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Wandamen Peninsula. Copiula obsti Data Deficient (DD) Yes Copiula pipiens Data Deficient (DD) Found in Yapen. Hylophorbus nigrinus Data Deficient (DD) Yes Hylophorbus picoides Data Deficient (DD) Yes Hylophorbus sextus Data Deficient (DD) Ask Steve Richards for additional information. Hylophorbus tetraphonus Data Deficient (DD) Yes Hylophorbus wondiwoi Data Deficient (DD) Yes Kalophrynus bunguranus Data Deficient (DD) Microhyla superciliaris Data Deficient (DD) Yes Ask Djoko and LIPI for additional information. Oreophryne albopunctata Data Deficient (DD) Yes Oreophryne alticola Data Deficient (DD) Oreophryne asplenicola Data Deficient (DD) Oreophryne atrigularis Data Deficient (DD) Yes Found in Wondiwoi Mountain. Oreophryne brevicrus Data Deficient (DD) Oreophryne brevirostris Data Deficient (DD) Oreophryne clamata Data Deficient (DD) Yes Oreophryne crucifer Data Deficient (DD) Oreophryne flava Data Deficient (DD) Yes Oreophryne frontifasciata Data Deficient (DD) Found in Halmahera (but not sure if it's in a
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