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Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899:475

Bogota stubfoot toad

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Atelopus flaviventris Werner, 1899:476

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1993 (Lötters, 2005); 1999 (Ardila-Robayo et al. 2004)

Rediscovered in 2017

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Colombia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Werner, Franz. (1899). Über Reptilien und Batrachier aus Columbien und Trinidad. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch.-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 49: 470-484.

 

Other references:

Acosta-Galvis, A.R. 2000. Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1(3): 289-319.

Ardila-Robayo, M.C. and Acosta-Galvis, A. 2000. Anfibios. In: Rangel (ed.), Colombia Diversidad Biótica II La región de vida paramuna, pp. 903. Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia.

María Cristina Ardila-Robayo, Jose Vicente Rueda, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Ruth Adriana Maldonado-Silva. 2004. Atelopus subornatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T54557A11167235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54557A11167235.en. Downloaded on 06 November 2017.

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.

Enciso-Calle, Maria Paula, Viuche-Lozano, Andres, Anganoy-Criollo, Marvin and Bernal, Manuel Hernando. (2017). Rediscovery of Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899 (Anura: Bufonidae), with a redescription of the tadpole. Zootaxa 4344(1): 160-162. [Abstract]

La Marca, E., Lips, K.R., Lötters, S., Puschendorf, R., Ibáñez, R., Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., Schulte, R., Marty, C., Castro, F., Manzanilla-Puppo, J., Garcia-Perez, J.E., Toral, E., Bolaños, F., Chaves, G., Pounds, J.A. and Young, B. 2005. Catastrophic population declines and extinctions in Neotropical harlequin frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus). Biotropica 37(2): 190-201.

Lötters, S. 1989. Revalidierung von Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899. Salamandra: 281-290.

Lötters, S. (1992) Zur Lebendfärbung von Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899. Salamandra, 28, 89–91.

Lötters, S. 1996. The Neotropical Toad Genus Atelopus. Checklist - Biology - Distribution. Vences, M. and Glaw, F. Verlags GbR, Köln, Germany.

Lötters, S. (2005) Arlequín vientre de fuego, Atelopus subornatus. In: Rueda-Almonacid, J.V., Rodríguez-Mahecha, J.V., La Marca, E., Lötters, S., Kahn, T. & Angulo, A. (Eds.), Ranas Arlequines. Conservación Internacional, Bogotá, pp. 113.

Lynch, J.D. 1968. Systematic status of some Andean Leptodactylid frogs with a description of a new species of Eleutherodactylus. Herpetologica 24(4): 289-300.

Lynch, J.D. 1986. Notes on the reproductive behavior of Atelopus subornatus. Journal of Herpetology: 126-129.

Pounds, J.A., Bustamante, M.R., Coloma, L.A., Consuegra, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., Foster, P.N., La Marca, E., Masters, K.L., Merino-Viteri, A., Puschendorf, R., Ron, S.R., Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.A., Still, C.J. and Young, B.E. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439: 161-167.

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.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22830/atelopus-subornatus-bogota-stubfoot-toad

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