Hyloxalus ruizi Lynch, 1982:371
Ruiz's rocket frog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Colostethus ruizi Lynch, 1982:371
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1979 (IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Fusagasuga, between Alto de San Miguel and Aguadita, on the western flank of the eastern Andes, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia (IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, 2017)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: ICN 5419
Type locality: "on the border of a stream, [along] the road to Fusagasuga, between [Alto de] San Miguel and La Aguadita [Departamento Cundinamarca, Colombia]" (Lynch, 1982:[pagination?])
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lynch, J. D. (1982). Two new species of poison-dart frogs (Colostethus) from Colombia. Herpetologica 38: 366-374.
Other references:
Anganoy-Criollo, Marvin et al. (2022). The Enigmatic Hyloxalus edwardsi Species Group (Anura: Dendrobatidae): Phylogenetic Position, a New Species, and New Putative Morphological Synapomorphies. Herpetologica 78(4): 253-267. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-21-00015
Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World, : 49
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2017). Hyloxalus ruizi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T55143A85890887. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T55143A85890887.en. Downloaded on 16 October 2017.
Rivero, J. A. (1990 "1988"). Sobre las relaciones de las espceies del género Colostethus (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae). Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 48(129): 3-32.
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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