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Atelopus arthuri Peters, 1973

Arthur's harlequin toad

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Jaynes et al., 2022)

Last record: 1988 (Jaynes et al., 2022)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Peters, J. A. (1973). The frog genus Atelopus in Ecuador (Anura: Bufonidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1973: 1-49.

 

Other references:

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

Santiago Ron, Luis A. Coloma, Martín R. Bustamante, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Mario Yánez-Muñoz. (2004). Atelopus arthuri. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 September 2012.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10199/atelopus-arthuri-arthurs-stubfoot-toad

 

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