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Atelopus lynchi Cannatella, 1981

Lynch's harlequin toad

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1984

IUCN status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Cannatella, D. C. (1981). A new Atelopus from Ecuador and Colombia. Journal of Herpetology [1981]: 133-138.

 

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

Santiago Ron, Luis A. Coloma, Martín R. Bustamante, Wilmar Bolívar, Stefan Lötters, Juan Manuel Renjifo, Jose Vicente Rueda. (2004). Atelopus lynchi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 February 2013.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10200/atelopus-lynchi-lynch-stubfoot-toad

 

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