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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is widespread throughout much of South Asia and Southeast Asia, including many islands in Indonesia, the Philippines, Phuket and Singapore and is also found in northern, central, southern and south-western China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). It is distributed in western Japan, in the western half of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu Districts and Nansei Islands. It was recently introduced to Tsushima and Iki. The northern extremity of the species range in Japan is expanding rapidly. It has also been introduced to Guam, although it is not known whether it has established a breeding population there (Christy et al. 2007). It is found from sea level up to 2,000 m asl.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Bangladesh; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Lao Peoples Democratic Republic; Macao; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Viet Nam
Introduced:
Guam
Additional data:
? Upper elevation limit (metres): 2000
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Population [top]
Population: Frogs of this complex are generally common and abundant in suitable habitat. A slight decline (associated with pesticide application) has recently been observed in the Sri Lanka population/species and deformed specimens have also been observed.
Current Population Trend: Stable
Additional data:
? Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: It inhabits most open wet habitat types, including river floodplains, wet agriculture areas such as rice fields, ditches, marshes, parks, gardens and other habitats and in closed-canopy forest (although this is rare in some regions). Its breeding and larval development take place in various wetland habitats.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Use and Trade [top]
Use and Trade:
This species is harvested for human consumption and is also found in local and national trade.
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): The main threats to this species are the use of agrochemicals, specifically pesticide application, the drainage of suitable wetland areas and prolonged droughts. Morphological abnormalities, presumably due to chemical contamination, have been found in some frogs inhabiting agroecosystems in the central Western Ghats (Gurushankara et al. 2007).
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: Many protected areas in the region support this species. Taxonomic analysis of the F. limnocharis complex is needed, and determination of the species breeding status in Guam is also required. No other conservation actions are necessary at this time. It is protected by national legislation in India.
Errata [top]
Errata reason: Reformatted names of assessor(s), reviewer(s), contributor(s), facilitator(s) and/or compiler(s).
Citation: van Dijk, P.P., Iskandar, D., Inger, R.F., Lau, M.W.N., Ermi, Z., Baorong, G., Dutta, S., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., de Silva, A., Bordoloi, S., Kaneko, Y., Matsui, M. & Khan, M.S. 2004. Fejervarya limnocharis. (errata version published in 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58275A86154107. Downloaded on 20 April 2017.
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