Atelopus arsyecue Rueda-Almonacid, 1994
Starry night harlequin toad
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1991
'Rediscovered' in 2012 (see below)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
"indigenous communities at Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia were always aware of A. arsyecue, prior to its ‘scientific rediscovery’"
(Jaynes et al., 2022)
Distribution
Cesar Department, Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rueda-Almonacid, J. V. (1994). Una nueva especie de Atelopus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron 1841 (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) para la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Trianea (Acta Científica y Tecnológica INDERENA): 101-108.
Other references:
Acosta-Galvis, A.R. 2000. Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana: 289-319.
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
La Marca, E., Lips, K.R., Lötters, S., Puschendorf, R., Ibáñez, R., Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., Schulte, R., Marty, C., Castro, F., Manzanilla-Puppo, J., Garcia-Perez, J.E., Toral, E., Bolaños, F., Chaves, G., Pounds, J.A. and Young, B. 2005. Catastrophic population declines and extinctions in Neotropical harlequin frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus). Biotropica: 190-201.
Lötters, S. 1996. The Neotropical Toad Genus Atelopus. Checklist - Biology - Distribution. Vences, M. and Glaw, F. Verlags GbR, Köln, Germany.
Jose Vicente Rueda, Andrés Acosta-Galvis, Martha Patricia Ramírez Pinilla, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Adolfo Amézquita, María Cristina Ardila-Robayo. 2004. Atelopus arsyecue. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T54489A11141288. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54489A11141288.en. Downloaded on 14 April 2017.
Ruiz-Carranza, P.M., Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Lynch, J.D. 1996. Lista actualizada de la fauna de Amphibia de Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 20(77): 365-415.
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