Atelopus longirostris

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	BUFONIDAE

Scientific Name:	Atelopus longirostris
Species Authority:	Cope, 1868
Synonym/s:	Atelopus longirostris Werner, 1901 ssp. marmorata Phryniscus boussingaulti Thominot, 1889
Taxonomic Notes:	Lötters (1996) discussed controversy over the identity of frogs from Colombia assigned to this species by other authors.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct ver 3.1
Year Assessed:	2004
Assessor/s:	Martín R. Bustamante, Wilmar Bolívar, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Fernando Castro, Jose Vicente Rueda, Stefan Lötters, Andrés Acosta-Galvis
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Justification: Listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded since 1989, and extensive searches over the last fifteen years have failed to locate this species.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species was recorded from the Provinces of Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Cotopaxi, and Pichincha, on the north-western versant of the Ecuadorian Andes, at elevations of 200-2,500m asl. Records from the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental, Valle del Cauca Department, in Colombia, refer to an unidentified, probably un-named species.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Ecuador
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	The species appears to be extinct, with no records in Ecuador since 1989, despite extensive surveys in suitable habitat.

Population:

The species appears to be extinct, with no records in Ecuador since 1989, despite extensive surveys in suitable habitat.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This was a terrestrial species of lowland and montane tropical rainforests. It was a stream breeding species.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The decline in Ecuador is unexplained, and is possibly due to the disease chytridiomycosis, although this seems unusual given that the species was also found at lower elevations where chytridiomycosis is often not considered to be a threat. Other possible factors contributing to the extinction of this species include general climate change, pollution and habitat loss.

Major Threat(s):

The decline in Ecuador is unexplained, and is possibly due to the disease chytridiomycosis, although this seems unusual given that the species was also found at lower elevations where chytridiomycosis is often not considered to be a threat. Other possible factors contributing to the extinction of this species include general climate change, pollution and habitat loss.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The range of this species overlapped with the Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi-Cayapas and possibly reached the northern limit of the Reserva Ecológica Los Illinizas.

Conservation Actions:

The range of this species overlapped with the Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi-Cayapas and possibly reached the northern limit of the Reserva Ecológica Los Illinizas.

Citation:	Martín R. Bustamante, Wilmar Bolívar, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Fernando Castro, Jose Vicente Rueda, Stefan Lötters, Andrés Acosta-Galvis 2004. Atelopus longirostris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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