Atelopus

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Atelopus is a large genus of Bufonidae, commonly known as harlequin frogs or toads, from Central and South America, ranging as far north as Costa Rica and as far south as Bolivia. Atelopus species are small, generally brightly colored, and diurnal. Most species are associated with mid-to-high elevation streams.

This genus has been greatly affected by amphibian declines, with about 70% of species now considered endangered or extinct.[1] While threatened by habitat loss, pollution, and introduced species, the primary cause of these declines appears to be the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.[2][3]

Almost 40% of the described species in the genus are considered possibly extinct; this is raised to 45% when data deficient species are added; this number may be even higher, given that the genus contains many undescribed species that could also be extinct, and many of the species considered critically endangered but extant may have gone extinct after the last surveys that detected them, or could go extinct in the future.[4] For example, there are 32 known Atelopus species (including half a dozen undescribed) in Ecuador. One of these is data deficient (its status is unclear), two are endangered and the remaining are critically endangered.[5] Almost half the Ecuador species have not been recorded in a decade or more and are likely extinct. In some species conservationists have established captive colonies as a safeguard.[5] However, of 80 species that had not been seen since the 1950s, 32 have been sighted in the 21st Century, albeit at dangerously low population numbers.[1] Among the Atelopus species that have been rediscovered decades after their last sighting have been A. arsyescue, A. mindoensis, A. bomolochos, A. ignescens, A. balios, A. longirostris, A. subornatus, A. varius, A. carbonerensis and possibly A. guanujo. The mechanism whereby these species survived extinction remains to be discovered.[1][6]

New Atelopus species are discovered with some regularity, and many new species have been described in the last decade. Among others, a new subspecies, popularly dubbed the purple fluorescent frog, was discovered in 2007 by scientists Paul Ouboter and Jan Mol during a follow-up survey of the Nassau plateau in Suriname.[7] Leeanne Alonso from Conservation International, the organisation that led the expedition, said this frog may be threatened by illegal gold mining.[8] It was described as a new subspecies of Atelopus hoogmoedi (itself considered a subspecies of A. spumarius by some), named A. h. nassaui in 2012.[9] Two new species were also described in 2020: A. manauensis and A. moropukaqumir, both of which are highly threatened by the chytrid fungus and habitat destruction.[10][11] Another new species, A. frontizero, was described in 2021.[12]

Species

Image Common name Binomial name Conservation status
Andes stubfoot toad Atelopus andinus Rivero, 1968Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Angelito stubfoot toad Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo and Ruiz-Carranza, 1998Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Ardila's stubfoot toad Atelopus ardila Coloma, Duellman, Almendariz, Ron, Teran-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus arsyecue imported from iNaturalist photo 57985228 on 4 August 2020.jpg Starry night harlequin toad Atelopus arsyecue Rueda-Almonacid, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus arthuri 56814765.jpg Arthur's stubfoot toad Atelopus arthuri Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus balios.jpg Rio Pescado stubfoot toad Atelopus balios Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus barbotini cropped.png Purple harlequin toad Atelopus barbotini Lescure, 1981Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus bomolochos.jpg Azuay stubfoot toad Atelopus bomolochos Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Boulenger's stubfoot toad Atelopus boulengeri Peracca, 1904Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus calima Velásquez Trujillo, Castro Herrera, Lötters & Plewnia, 2024Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Rio Carauta stubfoot toad Atelopus carauta Ruiz-Carranza & Hernández-Camacho, 1978Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus carbonerensis.jpg Venezuelan yellow frog or La Carbonera stubfoot toad Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero, 1974Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus carrikeri01.jpg Guajira stubfoot toad Atelopus carrikeri Ruthven, 1916Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus certus orange.jpg Darien stubfoot toad or Toad Mountain harlequin frog Atelopus certus Barbour, 1923Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Chiriqui harlequin frog - Atelopus chiriquiensis.jpg Chiriqui harlequin frog †Atelopus chiriquiensis Shreve, 1936Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus chirripoensis Savage and Bolaños, 2009Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Chocó stubfoot toad Atelopus chocoensis Lötters, 1992Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus chrysocorallus La Marca, 1996Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus colomai Plewnia, Terán-Valdez, Culebras, Boistel, Paluh, Quezada Riera, Heine, Reyes-Puig, Salazar-Valenzuela, Guayasamin & Lötters, 2024
File:Atelopus coynei Andreas Kay.jpg Rio Faisanes stubfoot toad Atelopus coynei Miyata, 1980Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus cruciger imported from iNaturalist photo 83335906 on 4 August 2020 (cropped).jpg Veragua stubfoot toad Atelopus cruciger (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus dimorphus Lötters, 2003Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Huila stubfoot toad Atelopus ebenoides Rivero, 1963Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (possibly extinct) Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus gracilis (1).jpg Elegant stubfoot toad Atelopus elegans (Boulenger, 1882)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Peruvian harlequin frog Atelopus epikeisthos Lötters, Schulte & Duellman, 2005Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Carabaya stubfoot toad Atelopus erythropus Boulenger, 1903Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Malvasa stubfoot toad Atelopus eusebianus Rivero & Granados-Díaz, 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus eusebiodiazi Venegas, Catenazzi, Siu-Ting & Carrillo, 2008Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus exiguus.jpg Mazán jambato frog Atelopus exiguus Boettger, 1892Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus famelicus Rivero & Morales, 1995Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Forest stubfoot toad Atelopus farci Lynch, 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Cayenne Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus flavescens) (10672861725).jpg Cayenne stubfoot toad Atelopus flavescens Duméril & Bibron, 1841Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Central Coast Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus franciscus) (10596338993).jpg Central Coast stubfoot toad Atelopus franciscus Lescure, 1974Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Border harlequin frog Atelopus frontizero Veselý & Batista, 2021
Antado stubfoot toad Atelopus galactogaster Rivero & Serna, 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Giant stubfoot toad Atelopus gigas Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz, Ron, Terán-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:2012-02-08 Post-metamorph Atelopus gylphus - Pirre Harlequin frog.jpg Pirri Range harlequin frog Atelopus glyphus Dunn, 1931Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus guanujo.jpg Guanujo stubfoot toad Atelopus guanujo Coloma, 2002Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
La Guitarra stubfoot toad Atelopus guitarraensis Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Morona-Santiago stubfoot toad Atelopus halihelos Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus harlequin Coloma, Plewnia, Böning, Boistel, Ellwein, Lötters, Paluh, Roca-Rey Ross & Venegas, 2025
Atelopus histrionicus Lötters, Plewnia, Böning, Boistel, Chaparro, Coloma, Ellwein, Orsen, Paluh & Venegas, 2025
File:Atelopus hoogmoedi 12982604.jpg Hoogmoed harlequin toad Atelopus hoogmoedi Lescure, 1974Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
File:Atelopus ignescens 2019.jpg Quito stubfoot toad Atelopus ignescens (Cornalia, 1849)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus laetissimus.jpg San Lorenzo stubfoot toad Atelopus laetissimus Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo & Hernández-Camacho, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus limosus (5777160370).jpg Limosa harlequin frog Atelopus limosus Ibáñez, Jaramillo & Solís, 1995Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus loettersi De la Riva, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, Boistel, and Padial, 2011Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
El Tambo stubfoot toad Atelopus longibrachius Rivero, 1963Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus longirostris male.jpg Longnose stubfoot toad Atelopus longirostris Cope, 1868Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus lozanoi Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (endangered) Template:IUCN status
Lynch's stubfoot toad Atelopus lynchi Cannatella, 1981Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Manaus harlequin frog Atelopus manauensis Jorge, Ferrão & Lima, 2020
Atelopus mandingues Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus marinkellei Cochran and Goin, 1970Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Mindo stubfoot toad Atelopus mindoensis Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Colombian stubfoot toad Atelopus minutulus Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho & Ardila-Robayo, 1988Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Mittermeier's stubfoot toad Atelopus mittermeieri Acosta-Galvis, Rueda-Almonacid, Velásquez-Álvarez, Sánchez-Pacheco & Peña Prieto, 2006Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Hernandez's stubfoot toad Atelopus monohernandezii Ardila-Robayo, Osorno-Muñoz & Ruiz-Carranza, 2002Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus moropukaqumir Herrera-Alva, Díaz, Castillo, Rodolfo & Catenazzi, 2020Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
File:Atelopus mucubajiensis.jpg Mucubaji stubfoot toad Atelopus mucubajiensis Rivero, 1974Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
La Arboleda stubfoot toad Atelopus muisca Rueda-Almonacid & Hoyos, 1992Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus nahumae.jpg Atelopus nahumae Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo & Hernández-Camacho, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus nanay.jpg Sad harlequin frog Atelopus nanay Coloma, 2002Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Gualecenita stubfoot toad Atelopus nepiozomus Peters, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Niceforo's stubfoot toad Atelopus nicefori Rivero, 1963Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Nocturnal harlequin toad Atelopus nocturnus Bravo-Valencia and Rivera-Correa, 2011Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus onorei Coloma, Lötters, Duellman & Miranda-Leiva, 2007Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus orcesi Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz, Ron, Terán-Valdez & Guayasamin, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus oxapampae Lehr, Lötters, and Lundberg, 2008Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Rednose stubfoot toad Atelopus oxyrhynchus Boulenger, 1903Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Schmidt's stubfoot toad Atelopus pachydermus (Schmidt, 1857)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus palmatus 67424333.jpg Andersson's stubfoot toad Atelopus palmatus Andersson, 1945Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Pastuso harlequin frog Atelopus pastuso Andersson, 1945Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus patazensis03.jpg Pataz stubfoot toad Atelopus patazensis Venegas, Catenazzi, Siu-Ting & Carrillo, 2008Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
San Isidro stubfoot toad Atelopus pedimarmoratus Rivero, 1963Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Peru stubfoot toad Atelopus peruensis Gray & Cannatella, 1985Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus petersi imported from iNaturalist photo 56815472 on 4 August 2020.jpg Peters' stubfoot toad Atelopus petersi Coloma, Lötters, Duellman & Miranda-Leiva, 2007Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Painted stubfoot toad Atelopus petriruizi Ardila-Robayo, 1999Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus pictiventris Kattan, 1986Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Pinango stubfoot toad Atelopus pinangoi Rivero, 1982Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Napo stubfoot toad Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Podocarpus stubfoot toad Atelopus podocarpus Coloma, Duellman, Almendáriz, Ron, Terán-Valdez, and Guayasamin, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus pulcher 1.jpg Río Huallaga stubfoot toad Atelopus pulcher Boulenger, 1882Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Atelopus pyrodactylus Venegas & Barrio, 2006Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Quimbaya toad Atelopus quimbaya Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus reticulatus Lötters, Haas, Schick & Böhme, 2002Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Anori stubfoot toad Atelopus sanjosei Rivero & Serna, 1989Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Upper Amazon stubfoot toad Atelopus seminiferus Cope, 1874Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Pass stubfoot toad †Atelopus senex Taylor, 1952Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Baldias harlequin toad Atelopus sernai Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Camouflaged harlequin toad Atelopus simulatus Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Atelopus siranus Lötters &Henzl, 2000Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Sonsón stubfoot toad Atelopus sonsonensis Vélez-Rodriguez & Ruiz-Carranza, 1997Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
Cloud forest stubfoot toad Atelopus sorianoi La Marca, 1983Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct)
File:Atelopus spumarius.jpg Pebas stubfoot toad Atelopus spumarius Cope, 1871Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus spurrelli.jpg Condoto stubfoot toad Atelopus spurrelli Boulenger, 1914Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Bogota stubfoot toad Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus tamaense.jpg Venezuela stubfoot toad Atelopus tamaensis La Marca, García-Pérez & Renjifo, 1990Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus tricolor dorsal.jpg Three-colored stubfoot toad Atelopus tricolor Boulenger, 1902Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus varius 1.jpg Veragoa stubfoot toad Atelopus varius (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Maracay harlequin frog †Atelopus vogli Müller, 1934Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
Walker's stubfoot toad Atelopus walkeri Rivero, 1963Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status
File:Atelopus zeteki01b.jpg Panamanian golden frog Atelopus zeteki Dunn, 1933Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:IUCN status (possibly extinct in the wild)

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  1. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Lötters, Kielgast, Bielby, Schmidtlein, Bosch, Veith, Walker, Fisher, Rödder (2009). The Link Between Rapid Enigmatic Amphibian Decline and the Globally Emerging Chytrid Fungus. EcoHealth 6(3): 358-372
  3. ↑ Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani and Young, editors (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World. Pp. 100, 160-178. Template:ISBN
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  9. ↑ Amphibians of Suriname, Paul E. Ouboter and Rawien Jairam, Brill 2012, Template:ISBN
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