|Scientific Name:||Hyperolius nimbae|
|Species Authority:||Laurent, 1958|
|Taxonomic Source(s):||Frost, D.R. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (27 January 2014). New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. (Accessed: 27 January 2014).|
|Taxonomic Notes:||This species is is part of the Hyperolius tuberculatus Group within the H. viridiflavus complex (Schiøtz 1999).|
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1|
|Assessor(s):||Arne Schiøtz, Mark-Oliver Rödel|
|Reviewer(s):||Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)|
Listed as Endangered because its extent of occurrence is less than 5,000 km², all individuals are in fewer than five locations, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat on and around Mount Nimba.
|Range Description:||This species is known only from lowlands on the south-eastern foot of Mount Nimba in Côte d’Ivoire, though it presumably also occurs in Guinea and Liberia.|
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|Population:||It is apparently extremely common in its restricted range.|
|Current Population Trend:||Decreasing|
|Habitat and Ecology:||It lives in clearings in lowland forest, where it calls at the edge of large swamps. It presumably breeds in swamps.|
|Major Threat(s):||The threats are hard to determine, since it is not known to what extent the species can adapt to opening up of its habitat. It appears to have a genuinely small range, since it is a conspicuous species and probably would have been found elsewhere if it is more widespread. It might be adversely affected by expanding agriculture, logging and human settlement.|
|Conservation Actions:||It is not known from any protected areas. Although part of Mount Nimba is protected as the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (which was added to the list of World Heritage Sites in 1981) the site is urgently in need of stricter protection and improved management, particularly given that it represents the only known site where several highly threatened species are known to persist.|
IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
Laurent, R.F. 1958. La reserve naturelle integrale du Mont Nimba - Les rainettes du genre Hyperolius. Memoires de l'Institution Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 53: 275-299.
Laurent, R.F. 1976. Nouveaux commentaires sur la superespece Hyperolius viridiflavus (Anura). Annales Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale 8(213): 73-114.
Schiøtz, A. 1967. The treefrogs (Rhacophoridae) of West Africa. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensi 25: 1-346.
Schiøtz, A. 1971. The superspecies Hyperolius viridiflavus (Anura). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 134: 21-76.
Schiøtz, A. 1999. Treefrogs of Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
|Citation:||Arne Schiøtz, Mark-Oliver Rödel. 2004. Hyperolius nimbae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T56170A11421874. . Downloaded on 07 February 2016.|