Atelopus guanujo Coloma, 2002
Puca Sapo stubfoot toad
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: April 1988
Rediscovered in 2020 (Jaynes et al., 2022)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Coloma, Luis A. (2002). Two species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from Ecuador. Herpetologica 58(2): 229-252.https://doi.org/10.1655/0018-0831(2002)058[0229:TNSOAA]2.0.CO;2
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
Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Martín R. Bustamante, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Ana Almendáriz. (2004). Atelopus guanujo. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 February 2013.
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.
Merino-Viteri, A. 2001. Análisis de posibles causas de las disminuciones de poblaciones de anfibios en los Andes del Ecuador. Tesis de Licenciatura. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Zimmer, Katarina. (2024, 4 June). A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species. Mongabay (news story). Available at: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/a-tale-of-two-frogs-the-tough-uphill-battle-for-rediscovered-species/ [Accessed 11 June 2024]
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