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Atelopus sonsonensis Vélez-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Carranza, 1997
Atelopus sonsonensis Vélez-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Carranza, 1997, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 21: 556. Holotype: ICN 37516, by original designation. Type locality: "COLOMBIA, Antioquia, municipio de Sonsón, vereda Caunzal, flanco oriental de la Cordillera Central, ca. 15 km al sureste del municipio Argelia, 1500 m."
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Municipio de Sonsón, southern Antioquia) and the Municipio de Pensilvania, Parque Nacional Natural Selva de Florencia, Departamento Caldas, Colombia on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central, Colombia, 1500–2150 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia
Endemic: Colombia
Comment
In the Atelopus longirostris group according to the original publication. 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: 175. Rada, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 111, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Velásquez-Trujillo, Castro-Herrera, Lötters, and Plewnia, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 67–81, discussed the Caldas population of this species, its comparative morphology, and provisionally assigned that population to this species.
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