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.
Frank, N., and E. Ramus. 1995. Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of the World. Pottsville, Pennsylvania: N. G. Publishing Inc.
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Hoyos, J. M., Medina, P. and Schoch, P. (2015). Osteology of [i]Atelopus muisca[/i] (Anura, Bufonidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 3905: 119-130. [Abstract]
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Jose Vicente Rueda, Wilmar Bolívar, Adolfo Amézquita, Andrés Acosta-Galvis. (2004). Atelopus muisca. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 February 2013.
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.
Stuart, S. N., M. Hoffmann, J. Chanson, N. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B. Young eds., . 2008. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Barcelona, Spain; International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland. Switzerland; Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.: Lynx Editions.
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