Hylomantis lemur
This small, frail looking treefrog is believed to be critically endangered, known only from a handful of locations in Costa Rica and Panama.
Habitat restoration, and augmentation through the addition of artificial breeding sites throughout the CRARC reserve has allowed the once fragile population within the reserve to stabilize, grow, and even expand their distribution within the reserve. Artifical breeding “holes” now consistently support large numbers of tadpoles, and just like with calcarifer, the CRARC is permitted to harvest a small percentage of these tadpoles. These Tadpoles are then shipped to UE in Canada where they complete their metamorphosis.
Despite its appearance, lemur has proved to be a hardy captive, and they are surprisingly active and acrobatic, their skinny legs are capable of powering surprisingly large jumps. Though the frog is small, we recommend a large terrarium due to lemur’s active nature, and suggest a footprint of at least 40x40cm with a height of approximately 80cm. We have provided a care sheet for C. calcarifer here (add link), and the care parameters can be directly applied to lemur, remembering of course that due to their smaller size, lemur wont be able to consume as large of food items as calcarifer.
We hope to begin shipping the first H. lemur out in the summer and autumn months of 2010. The metamorphs grow rapidly, so in most cases we will be shipping half grown or larger frogs. As with everything else originating from the CRARC, half of the sale price goes back to CRARC ensuring that vital amphibian research and conservation may continue. Deposits from seriously interested parties are now being accepted.