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Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875

Green-spotted stubfoot toad, Flat-spined atelopus

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: July 1985

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Jiménez de la Espada, M. (1875). Vertebrados del viaje al Pacífico verificado de 1862 a 1865 por una comisión de naturalistas enviada por el gobierno Español. Batracios, A. Miguel Ginesta, Madrid.

 

Other references:

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. Atelopus planispina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T54543A98642698. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T54543A98642698.en. Accessed on 30 July 2022.

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, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Stefan Lötters, Enrique La Marca. (2004). Atelopus planispina. 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/10256/atelopus-planispina-flat-spined-stubfoot

 

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