Atelopus hoogmoedi Lescure, 1974

Common Names

Hoogmoed Harlequin Toad (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 122).

Nassau Harlequin Toad (Atelopus hoogmoedi nassaui: Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 46).

Distribution

Hilly and mountainous areas of the Guianas (French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana) and Amazonian Brazil in Roraima, eastern Amazonas, northern and central Pará and Amapá (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Atelopus spumarius by Lötters, Boistel, Blanc, Haddad, and van der Meijden, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 132–134, where it had been placed by Lescure and Gasc, 1986, Caldasia, 15: 717. Noonan and Gaucher, 2005, Mol. Ecol., 14: 3017–3031, had provided the evidence for Atelopus hoogmoedi being non-conspecific with Atelopus spumarius. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 122–123, provided a brief but informative account. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 48–49, provided a brief account and photo of Atelopus spumarius hoogmoedi. Lötters, van der Meijden, Coloma, Boistel, Cloetens, Ernst, Lehr, and Veith, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: 54, rejected the conspecificity of Atelopus barbotini and Atelopus spumarius. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 42–51. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 375, for brief account and records for Guyana (as Atelopus spumarius). Lescure, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 2: 209–215, provided information on call. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call, as Atelopus pulcher. Costa-Campos and Carvalho, 2018, Zootaxa, 4521: 141–144, reported on the advertisement call from Amapá, Brazil, and compared it to that of Atelopus barbotini, Atelopus flavescens, and Atelopus franciscus. For identification of larvae (as Atelopus pulcher) in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. Silva, Cornélio, Araujo de Oliveira, Trindade, França, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020, Genet. Mol. Res., 19 (1: 18392): 1–10, provided molecular evidence that this is a species complex with populations south of the Amazon River is a distinct, but unnamed species. Jorge, Ferrão, and Lima, 2020, Diversity, 12 (310): 7, presented phylogenetic evidence that Atelopus franciscus and Atelopus barbotini are imbedded within nominal Atelopus hoogmoedi, the implication being that Atelopus hoogmoedi is a species complex. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, regarded records of Atelopus barbotini and Atelopus spumarius from Amapá, Brazil, as based on misidentifications of Atelopus hoogmoedi. They also reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. 

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