Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo and Ruíz-Carranza, 1998
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
According to (Ardila-Robayo et al., 2004) the species was last collected in 2000. However, Coloma et al. (2010:35) state that the last records of this species in Colombia and Ecuador were in 12 April 1995 and 22 July 1988 respectively. At least 9 searches have been conducted, all unsuccessful (Ibid.).
Distribution
near Valencia, San Sebastián Municipality, Cauca Department, Colombia and Río La Plata, Comunidad de Morán, Reserva Ecológica El Ángel, Provincia Carchi, Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
KU 178417 (adult female)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ardila-Robayo, María Cristina and Ruiz-Carranza, P. M. (1998). Una nueva especie de Atelopus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron 1841 (Amphibia: Bufonidae) de la Cordillera Central Colombiana. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 1998: 281-285.
Other references:
Ardila-Robayo, M.C. (2005). Atelopus angelito. In: Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., Rodríguez-Mahecha, J.V., Lötters, S., La Marca, E., Kahn, T. & Angulo, A. (Eds.) Ranas arlequines. Conservación Internacional. Panamericana Formas e Impresos S. A., Bogotá, Colombia, 56 pp.
María Cristina Ardila-Robayo, Wilmar Bolívar, Jose Vicente Rueda, Andrés Acosta-Galvis, John Lynch. (2004). Atelopus angelito. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 February 2013.
Coloma, Luis A. et al. (2010). Five new (extinct?) species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from Andean Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Zootaxa 2574: 1-54.
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
Yánez-Muñoz, M. & Altamirano B., M. (2005) Atelopus sp. 14. In: Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., Rodríguez-Mahecha, J.V., Lötters, S., La Marca, E., Kahn, T. & Angulo, A. (Eds.) Ranas arlequines. Conservación Internacional. Panamericana Formas e Impresos S. A., Bogotá, 150 pp.
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