Atelopus muisca Rueda-Almonacid & Hoyos, 1992:472
Muisca stubfoot toad
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1996
Rediscovered in October 2008 (single individual, none recorded since, hence still missing)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Colombia
Biology
Hypodigm
Holotype: IND-AN 4650
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rueda-Almonacid, J. V. and Hoyos, J. M. (1992). Atelopes muisca, nueva especie de anfibio (Anura: Bufonidae) para el P.N.N. Chingaza, Colombia. Trianea Acta Científica y Tecnológica [1991]: 471-480.
Other references:
Acosta-Galvis, A.R. 2000. Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana: 289-319.
Acosta-Galvis, A. R., and J. V. Rueda-Almonacid. 2004. Sapito arlequín esmeralda. Atelopus muisca. Rueda-Almonacid, J. V., J. D. Lynch, and A. Amézquita eds., Libro Rojo de los Anfibios de Colombia: 128-131. Bogota, Panamericana Formas e Impresos, S.A.
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.
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Ruiz-Carranza, P.M., Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Lynch, J.D. 1996. Lista actualizada de la fauna de Amphibia de Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 20(77): 365-415.
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