Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo and Ruiz-Carranza, 1998

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Atelopus > Species: Atelopus angelito

Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo and Ruiz-Carranza, 1998, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 22: 281. Holotype: ICN 33408, by original designation. Type locality: "COLOMBIA, Departamento del Cauca, Municipio de San Sebastián, Inspección de policía Valencia, ca. Km. 5-6 por camino de herradura de Valencia a Quinchana, ca. 1° 51′ latitud N, 76° 47′ longitud W de Greenwich, 2900 m-3000m".

Common Names

Angelito's Harlequin Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx). 

Rana Arlequín de Angelito (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx).

Distribution

Elevations of 2500 to 3000 m along the eastern slope of the Cordillera Occidental from the Departamento Valle del Cauca in Colombia to the Cordillera Central in Carchi Province, Ecuador. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Atelopus ignescens group according to the original publication. See description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 160. Ardila-Robayo, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 56, provided a brief account. Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz C., Ron, Terán-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010, Zootaxa, 2574: 1–54, discussed the Ecuador record and noted that the population may be extinct. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 201–202, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.  

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