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IUCN (Red List) status: Near Threatened (NT).
For Red List information on this species, see the IUCN species account.

From the IUCN Red List Species Account:   Range Description Allowing for the uncertainty associated with the attribution of various Paa populations to various names, this appears to be a taxon ranging from south of the Chinese border through the Annamite Mountains to southern Lao People's Democratic Republic (Bourret 1942; Inger, Orlov and Darevsky 1999; Ohler et. al. 2000; B. Stuart pers. comm.), and has been recorded from 500-1,700m asl. Habitat and Ecology It has been recorded in and around streams, in which it breeds, in hill and lower montane evergreen forest. Population It is thought to be common throughout most of its range. Population Trend Decreasing Major Threats The major threat is collection for consumption, and presumably also degradation of forest habitat and stream sedimentation, as a result of logging. Conservation Actions Significant areas of appropriate habitat appear to be covered by the collective protected areas of Viet Nam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, but harvesting is still a problem in these areas (BirdLife International 2001), and so needs to be managed more sustainably. Clarification of the taxonomic identity and the distribution of Paa frogs in this region is also necessary. Citation Peter Paul van Dijk, Steven Swan 2004. Quasipaa verrucospinosa. In: IUCN 2012   IUCN Terms of Use