ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE

PROTECTION STATUS: Threatened

YEAR PLACED ON LIST: 1997

CRITICAL HABITAT: 260 acres in Puerto Rico designated in 2007

RECOVERY PLAN: 2004

RANGE: The Pandura range in southeastern Puerto Rico, west to Patillas/San Lorenzo

THREATS: Deforestation, construction and industrial development, runoff from the use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, the use of caves as garbage dumps, and fire

POPULATION TREND: The population trend is unknown, but the species is extremely restricted in geographical distribution and occurs only on privately owned lands. All individual frogs are in fewer than five locations.

Photo by J.P. Zgarra, USFWS