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FWS may list Puerto Rico's coqui llanero, undertakes status review

By Keith Rizzardi

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74 Fed. Reg. 32510 / Vol. 74, No. 129 / Wednesday, July 8, 2009 / Proposed Rules
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / Fish and Wildlife Service / 50 CFR Part 17 / Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90–Day Finding on a Petition To List the Coqui Llanero (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi) as Endangered

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service), announce a 90-day finding on a petition to list coqui llanero (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi), a tree frog, as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Following our review of the petition, we find that it provides substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that listing this species may be warranted. Therefore, with the publication of this notice, we initiate a status review to determine if listing the coqui llanero is warranted. To ensure that the status review is comprehensive, we request scientific and commercial data and other information regarding this species. We will initiate a determination on critical habitat for this species if and when we initiate a listing action.

The coqui llanero is the smallest Puerto Rican Eleutherodactylus and is a herbaceous-wetland specialist only known to occur in the Sabana Seca-Ingenio Ward, Toa Baja type locality, which consists of approximately 180 hectares (ha) (444.8 acres (ac)) of seasonally flooded palustrine (marshy, non-tidal wetlands substantially covered with emergent vegetation such as trees, shrubs, and moss, or fresh-water herbaceous wetland), at 17 m (55.8 ft) above sea level. Photo from coquiPR.com

Full post as published by ESA Blawg on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).