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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is known from eastern Nepal, it is presumed to be in southern Bhutan, it is known from northern Bangladesh, India (Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal and Manipur), northern Myanmar, western Thailand and southern Xizang (Medog) and southern Yunnan (Jinghong, Mengla and Rui Li counties) provinces in China. It probably occurs more widely than current records suggest, especially in areas between known sites. It has been recorded from 500-2,000m asl.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Bangladesh; China; India; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand
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Population [top]
Population: In China it is probably common, but it is easy to find only in the breeding season. There is no information on the population status of this species elsewhere in its range.
Current Population Trend: Decreasing
Additional data:
? Population severely fragmented: No
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: It inhabits lowland to submontane moist evergreen forest. It makes foam nests above pools and ponds. outside the breeding season it lives high in the canopy.
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): Deforestation and degradation of the species habitat as a result of agriculture, logging and water pollution are threats to the species.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: It occurs in Kaeng Kra Chan National Park in Thailand, and in the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in China. In northeastern India the species is present in Dihang-Dibang Biosphere Reserve and it presumably occurs in a number of other protected areas.
Citation: Lu Shunqing, Yang Datong, Fei Liang, Peter Paul van Dijk, Tanya Chan-ard, Saibal Sengupta, Annemarie Ohler, Sabitry Bordoloi. 2004. Rhacophorus maximus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T59003A11865476. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59003A11865476.en. Downloaded on 05 December 2016.
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