Atelopus palmatus Andersson, 1945
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1937
Rediscovered in 2008
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Andersson, L. G. (1945). Batrachians from East Ecuador, collected 1937, 1938 by Wm. Clarke-Macintyre and Rolf Blomberg. Arkiv för Zoologi. Stockholm 37A(2): 1-88.
Other references:
Coloma, L. A. (1997). Morphology, systematics and phylogenetic relationships among frogs of the genus Atelopus (Aunra: Bufonidae). PhD dissertation for the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Luis A. Coloma, Stefan Lötters, Diego Cisneros-Heredia. 2004. Atelopus palmatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T54537A11163846. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54537A11163846.en. Downloaded on 12 February 2017.
Jaynes, Kyle E. et al. (2022). Harlequin frog rediscoveries provide insights into species persistence in the face of drastic amphibian declines. Biological Conservation 276: 109784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109784
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Lötters, S. 1996. The Neotropical Toad Genus Atelopus. Checklist - Biology - Distribution. Vences, M. and Glaw, F. Verlags GbR, Köln, Germany.
Peters, J.A. 1973. The frog genus Atelopus in Ecuador (Anura: Bufonidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology: 1-49.
Pounds, J.A., Bustamante, M.R., Coloma, L.A., Consuegra, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., Foster, P.N., La Marca, E., Masters, K.L., Merino-Viteri, A., Puschendorf, R., Ron, S.R., Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.A., Still, C.J. and Young, B.E. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439: 161-167.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]