Atelopus gracilis

Atelopus gracilis
	Atelopus gracilis
Systematics
without rank:	Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order :	Frog (anura)
Subordination :	Neobatrachia
Family :	Toads (Bufonidae)
Genre :	Stumpy foot frogs ( Atelopus )
Type :	Atelopus gracilis
Scientific name
	Atelopus gracilis
	Barb. , 1905

Atelopus gracilis is a species of amphibian from the toad family(Bufonidae).

features

Atelopus gracilis is very similar to Atelopus flavescens . In Atelopus gracilis , the trunk of old females is three times as long as the head, that of old males two and a half times as long and the tibiotarsal joint extends a little over the eye when the hind leg is attached to the body. The body is deep brown in color and has red-brown longitudinal stripes. Sometimes there are also white vertical stripes from the eye to the soft.

Occurrence

The species is endemic to the island of Gorgona, which belongs to Colombia .

Systematics

Darrel Frost , American Museum of Natural History , lists Atelopus gracilis in its online reference "Amphibian Species of the World" as a synonym for Atelopus elegans Boulenger , 1882, and refers to another synonym description by Rivero.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Fritz Nieden: Anura II . In: FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal, K. Heider (eds.): Das Tierreich , Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, pp. 83–84.

^ Boulenger, GA (1882): Catalog of the Batrachia Salientia s. Caudata in the collection of the British Museum . Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 155

↑ Rivero, Juan A. (1963): The distribution of Venezuelan frogs I. The Maracaibo Basin . Caribbean Journal of Science. 3 (1): 7-15.

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Web links

Commons : Atelopus gracilis - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Atelopus elegans inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Luis A. Coloma, Santiago Ron, Wilmar Bolívar, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Stefan Lötters, 2010. Accessed April 1, 2014.

[Nieden-1] Fritz Nieden: Anura II . In: FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal, K. Heider (eds.): Das Tierreich , Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, pp. 83–84.

[Boulenger-2] Boulenger, GA (1882): Catalog of the Batrachia Salientia s. Caudata in the collection of the British Museum . Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 155

[Rivero-3] Rivero, Juan A. (1963): The distribution of Venezuelan frogs I. The Maracaibo Basin . Caribbean Journal of Science. 3 (1): 7-15.