Bolitoglossa capitana Brame & Wake, 1963
Orphan salamander
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1971
Rediscovered in 2005
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Brame, A. H. and Wake, D. B. (1963). The salamanders of South America. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Contributions in Science [1963]: 1-72.
Other references:
Acosta-Galvis, A. R. (2000). Ranas, Salamandras y Caecilias (Tetrapoda: Amphibia) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana: 289-319.
Brame, A. H. and Wake, D. B. (1972). New species of salamanders (genus Bolitoglossa) from Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Contributions in Science [1972]: 1-34.
Martha Patricia Ramírez Pinilla, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Jose Vicente Rueda, Adolfo Amézquita, María Cristina Ardila-Robayo. (2004). Bolitoglossa capitana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T59142A11889041. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59142A11889041.en. Downloaded on 12 February 2017.
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.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]