Atelopus longirostris Cope, 1868
Longnose stubfoot toad, Longnose harlequin frog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Phryniscus boussingaulti Thominot, 1889; Atelopus longirostris marmorata Werner, 1901
Conservation Status
Last record: 1989
Rediscovered in March 2016 (source)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: photo by Luis Aurelio Coloma (CC 4.0). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Cope, E. D. (1868). An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton expedition to Equador and the upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1868]: 96-140.
Other references:
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Martín R. Bustamante, Wilmar Bolívar, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Fernando Castro, Jose Vicente Rueda, Stefan Lötters, Andrés Acosta-Galvis. (2004a). Atelopus longirostris. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 February 2013.
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Tapia, Elicio Eladio, Coloma, Luis Aurelio, Pazmiño-Otamendi, Gustavo and Peñafiel, Nicolás. (2017). Rediscovery of the nearly extinct longnose harlequin frog Atelopus longirostris (Bufonidae) in Junín, Imbabura, Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity 3(1): 157-167.
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