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Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero 1972

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
  • 2. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
  • 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA

Description

Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero, 1972 *

Holotype: BM 1968.940.

Type locality: “ La Carbonera (San Eusebio), 2,330 m, Estado Mérida, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 1. Páramo el Tambor; surroundings of the type locality.

Remarks: Considered the most endangered species of the genus in Venezuela, probably extinct (Rueda-Almonacid et al. 2005). The last sighting of a live specimen was in 1998 (Torres and Barrio-Amorós 2001). La Carbonera has been extensively deforested and used as pasture land, and little original cloud forest remains in the Sierra de la Culata National Park. Recent sightings (as recent as 2016) have not been proven, and must be verified.

Selected references: Rivero (1972, 1980); Dole and Durant (1974); Durant and Dole (1974a,b); La Marca (1984a, 1992); Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (1995, 1999); Lötters (1996); La Marca and Lötters (1997); Torres and Barrio-Amorós (2001); Barrio-Amorós (2001c, 2013); Rueda-Almonacid et al. (2005); Barrio-Amorós and Torres (2010).

Notes

Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, pp. 1-198 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) (e 180) 13 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA31FFE7FFACFF986D36FA1CFFB9FFDF (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFA4FF906DDDFC71FB80FDD9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM 1968
Scientific name authorship
Rivero
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Bufonidae
Genus
Atelopus
Species
carbonerensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero, 1972 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Rivero JA. 1972. On Atelopus oxyrhynchus Boulenger (Amphibia, Salientia), with the description of a new race and a related new species from the Venezuelan paramos. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 29: 600 - 612.
  • Torres D, Barrio CL. 2001. Conservation (Anura): Atelopus carbonerensis. Herpetological Review 32: 179.
  • Rivero JA. 1980. Notas sobre los anfibios de Venezuela IV. Una nueva especie de Atelopus (Amphibia, Bufonidae) de los Andes, con anotaciones sobre el posible origen del genero en Venezuela. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 40: 129 - 139.
  • Durant P, Dole J. 1974. Informaciones sobre la ecologia de Atelopus oxyrhynchus (Salientia: Atelopodidae) en el bosque nublado de San Eusebio, estado Merida. Revista Forestal Venezolana 24: 83 - 91.
  • Dole J, Durant P. 1974 a. Movements and seasonal activity of Atelopus oxyrhynchus (Anura: Atelopodidae) in a Venezuelan cloud forest. Copeia 1974 (1): 230 - 235.
  • La Marca E. 1984 a. Longevity in the Venezuelan Yellow Frog Atelopus oxyrhinchus carbonerensis (Anura: Bufonidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 87: 66 - 67.
  • La Marca E. 1992. Catalogo Taxonomico, Biogeografico y Bibliografico de las Ranas de Venezuela. Cuadernos Geograficos ULA 9. Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Merida, Venezuela. 197 p.
  • Rodriguez JP, Rojas-Suarez F. 1995. El Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Provita, Fundacion Polar, Wildlife Conservation Society, Profauna-MARNR, UICN, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela. 444 p.
  • Lotters S. 1996. The Neotropical Toad Genus Atelopus. Checklist, Biology, Distribution. Vences und Glaw Verlags GbR, Koln, Germany. 143 p.
  • La Marca E, Lotters S. 1997. Monitoring of declines in Venezuelan Atelopus (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae). Herpetologia Bonnensis 1997: 207 - 213.
  • Barrio-Amoros CL. 2001 c. State of knowledge on the declination of amphibians in Venezuela. Froglog 47: 2 - 4.
  • Barrio-Amoros CL, Torres D. 2010. Conservation priorities for the most threatened amphibians in Venezuela, a preliminary approach. Revista de Ecologia Latinoamericana 15: 21 - 31.