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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is known historically from northern Myanmar and China (Zhao and Adler, 1993). It is also known from northern Viet Nam and central Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. The type locality Singapore is clearly based on a traded specimen (Bourret, 1941). It is known from altitudes up to 900m asl.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
China; Lao Peoples Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Viet Nam
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Population [top]
Population: It is a rarely encountered species that is uncommon when encountered.
Current Population Trend: Decreasing
Additional data:
? Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: It inhabits forests and riparian forests in hilly areas. It breeds in still waters such as paddy fields, pools, ditches, marshes and ponds. It is mostly restricted to primary forest. The call of this species is exceptionally loud.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): Its known areas of occurrence in Viet Nam continue to suffer from persistent processes degrading the forest, such as non-timber forest products collection, plantations, wildfires and changes to hydrology (BirdLife International 2001). Small numbers are also exported for the international pet trade.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: Its range includes many protected areas. The rating of ‘Threatened’ for R. nigropalmatus in the 1992 Viet Nam Red Data Book (Tran et al., 1992) might refer in part to R. dennysii.
Citation: Peter Paul van Dijk, Nguyen Quang Truong, Bryan Stuart, Michael Wai Neng Lau, Geng Baorong, Gu Huiqing, Yang Datong. 2004. Rhacophorus dennysi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58987A11855235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58987A11855235.en. Downloaded on 05 December 2016.
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