Wildlife inventories form the foundation for selecting priority sites and thereby help to identify priority species (Daily et al., 2003; Pineda and Halffter, 2004) and the relevance has become even more paramount because of the alarming rate of species extinction (Santos-Barrera et al., 2008). Amphibians hold vital positions in forest and aquatic food webs; they are also important for nutrientportion of the vertebrate biomass (Hutchens and DePerno, 2009).