Atelopus carrikeri Ruthven, 1916
Guajira stubfoot toad, Carrikeri harlequin frog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Atelopus leoperezii Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo and Hernández-Camacho, 1994
Conservation Status
Last record: 1994
Rediscovered in February 2008
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ruthven, G. A. (1916). Description of a new species of Atelopus from the Santa Marta mountains, Colombia. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 28: 1-3.
Other references:
Acosta-Galvis, A.R. 2000. Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana: 289-319.
Andrés Acosta-Galvis, Martha Patricia Ramírez Pinilla, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Jose Vicente Rueda, Adolfo Amézquita, María Cristina Ardila-Robayo. 2010. Atelopus carrikeri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T54496A11143667. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-2.RLTS.T54496A11143667.en. Downloaded on 25 January 2016.
Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Acosta-Galvis, A. 2000. Anfibios. In: Rangel (ed.), Colombia Diversidad Biótica II La región de vida paramuna, pp. 903. Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia.
Coloma, L.A. 2002. Two species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from Ecuador. Herpetologica.
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.
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.
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.
Rueda-Solano, Luis Alberto. (2008). [url=https://www.amphibians.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Froglog86.pdf]Colorful Harlequin Frog re-discovered in Colombia[/url]. Froglog 86: 1-2.
Rueda-Solano, L. A. (2012). Atelopus carrikeri Ruthven, 1916 (Anura: Bufonidae) una especie policromatica. Herpetotropicos 8(1-2): 61-66.
Rueda-Solano, L. A., Vargas-Salinas, F. and Rivera-Correa, M. (2015). The highland tadpole of the harlequin frog Atelopus carrikeri (Anura: Bufonidae) with an analysis of its microhabitat preference. Salamandra 51(1): 25-32. [automatic download]
Ruiz-Carranza, P. M., Ardila-Robayo, M. C. and Hernández-Camacho, J. A. (1994). Tres nuevas especies de Atelopus (Amphibia: Bufonidae) de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales [1994]: 153-163.
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.
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)]