Craugastor escoces Savage, 1975:280
Heredia robber frog, Red-bellied frog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Eleutherodactylus escoces Savage, 1975:280
Conservation Status
Last record: 1986
Rediscovered on 19 September 2016
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Costa Rica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: photo by Gilbert Alvarado Barboza y Randall Jiménez (CC 4.0). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Savage, J. M. (1975). Systematics and distribution of the Mexican and Central American stream frogs related to Eleutherodactylus rugulosus. Copeia 1975: 254-306.
Other references:
Alroy, J. 2014. A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction. Paleobiology 40:584-607.
Bolaños, F. and Chaves, G. (2004). Craugastor escoces. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 14 February 2013.
Crawford, A. J. and Smith, E. N. (2005). Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25: 536-555.
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
Jiménez, Randall and Alvarado, Gilbert. (2017). Craugastor escoces (Anura: Craugastoridae) reappears after 30 years: rediscovery of an “extinct” Neotropical frog. Amphibia-Reptilia 38(2): 257-259. [Abstract]
Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.
http://news.co.cr/university-costa-rica-scientists-locate-frog-believed-extinct/61826/