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Data Deficient (DD)

Rationale

Listed as Data Deficient in view of continuing doubts as to its taxonomic validity.

Distribution

Assuming that this is a valid species, it is known only from the type locality,Town Bush Valley, in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

Population trend

Trend

It is known only from a single female specimen collected in 1954, and numerous subsequent searches by various herpetologists have failed to find this form again. If it ever existed, it will probably have to be considered extinct.

Threats

There is no information on threats to this species.

Conservation

It is not known from any protected areas.

References 

[@book{596,
 address = {Washington, D.C.},
 author = {Minter, L.R., Burger, M., Harrison, J.A., Braack, H.H., Bishop, P.J. and Knoepfer, D.},
 publisher = {SI/MAB Series No. 9},
 title = {Atlas and Red Data Book of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland},
 year = {2004}
}
,@article{596,
 author = {Lambiris, A.J.L.},
 journal = {Lammergeyer},
 pages = {1--210},
 title = {A review of the amphibians of Natal},
 volume = {39},
 year = {1989}
}
,@electronic{3442,
 address = {www.iucnredlist.org},
 author = {IUCN},
 title = {IUCN Red List of Threatened Species},
 year = {2004}
}
,@article{3442,
 author = {Lambiris, A.J.L.},
 journal = {S. Afr. J. Zool.},
 number = {23},
 pages = {63--66},
 title = {A new species of <i>Cacosternum</i> (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae) from Natal},
 year = {1988}
}
,@electronic{3442,
 address = {http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html},
 author = {Frost, D.R.},
 publisher = {American Museum of Natural History},
 title = {Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0},
 year = {2015}
}
,]
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