Atelopus lozanoi Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruíz-Carranza, 2001
Lozano's stubfoot toad, Lynch's stubfoot toad
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1993
Rediscovered in April 2014 (single female recorded)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Páramo de Palacio, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Osorno Muñoz, M., Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Ruiz-Carranza, P.M. (2001). Una nueva especie de Atelopus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron 1841 (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 2001: 133-139.
Other references:
Barreto, Daniel Vivas. (2023). Following a trail of biological collections records, historical distributions, and environmental DNA to find the lost harlequin toads of Colombia. Universidad de los Andes. 83 pp.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2017). Atelopus lozanoi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T54523A49536359. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T54523A49536359.en. Downloaded on 16 December 2020.
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
Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Adolfo Amézquita, Andrés Acosta-Galvis. (2004). Atelopus lozanoi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 February 2013.