Population trend
Trend
No detailed population information is currently available, however, the species is known from five subpopulations in the Oudste, Thee, Noordhoeks, Boskloof and Rondegat tributaries of the Olifants River system on the western side of the Cederberg Mountains (Bills 1999, Swartz 2000, Swartz 2004, Van der Walt 2014), where more than 50% of the subpopulations are small and severely fragmented.