Atelopus longibrachius Rivero, 1963

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

Atelopus longibrachius Rivero, 1963, Caribb. J. Sci., 3: 112. Holotype: FMNH 54283, by original designation. Type locality: "El Tambo, Guisitó [= Huisitó, 800 m], Cauca, Colombia, 300 m, Pacific side of Colombia".

Common Names

El Tambo Stubfoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 39).

Distribution

Confirmed range restricted to the type locality and two other nearby sites in El Tambo municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia, although expected to be found more widely (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Atelopus flavescens group of Lynch, 1993, Alytes, 11: 77–87. Lötters, 1996, Neotrop. Toad Genus Atelopus: 33, suggested the possibility that the elevation of the type locality was a typographic error in the original publication. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2004, in Rangel (ed.), Colombia Divers. Biotica IV, El Chocó, 1: 654, provided additional records from Colombia. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 168. Guerrero and Rueda-Almonacid, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 121, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Ramírez, 2026, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 9: 227–228, discussed the types and distribution of the species, suggested that supposed records away from the area of the type locality are based on based on erroneous locality data, and provided a dot map of the distrubution.

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