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Atelopus balios Peters, 1973
Atelopus balios Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 12. Holotype: AMNH 17638, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Pescado, Guayas Province, Ecuador".
Common Names
Military Harlequin Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx).
Rana Arlequín Militar (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx).
Rio Pescado Stubfoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 39).
Distribution
Humid lowland and premontane Pacific forests of southwestern lowlands of Ecuador (Azuay, Cañar, and Guayas provinces), 57–670 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
Placed in the Atelopus longirostris group in the original publication. Coloma and Lötters, 1996, Herpetologica, 52: 66–70, reported on the tadpole. Lötters, 1996, Neotrop. Toad Genus Atelopus: 16, provided a review of the literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 161. Almendáriz C. and Rueda-Almonacid, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 59, provided a brief account. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 203–207, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on pp. 566–567) the advertisement call.
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