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Atelopus coynei Miyata, 1980

Rio Faisanes stubfoot toad

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered on 7 February 2012

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Miyata, K. (1980). A new species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. Breviora 458: 1-11.

 

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

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 37(2): 190-201.

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.

Santiago Ron, Luis A. Coloma, Martín R. Bustamante, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Ana Almendáriz, Mario Yánez-Muñoz. (2004). Atelopus coynei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T54501A11151836. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54501A11151836.en. Accessed on 30 November 2022.

 

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