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, at Municipio de San Sebastián, near Valencia, ca.
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. Their description was based on five adult males, one female and three juveniles. Additionally,
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provided data on conservation. Two other females were recorded (under the name
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. Herein, these specimens are also referred to
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They provided SVLs for two females, a description of color in life, two photographs (top one, KU 178417), and conservation data. Herein we report additional data of the latter individual KU 178417 (
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H, 14), an adult gravid female that we consider to be conspecific with
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It was found under a stone
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(airline) SE Maldonado (ca.
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), Provincia Carchi,
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. The Ecuadorian localities extend the geographic range of
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) as follows: pea green above with black markings; flanks yellow with black, venter orange with black; iris dark brown with yellow edging on pupil. Its measurements and ratios (in mm) are: SVL 49.2, TIBL 17.1, FOOT 19.4, HLSQ 14.1, HDWD 14.3, ITNR 4.6, EYDM 4.5, EYNO 3.5, RDUL 14.0, HAND 11.2, THBL 8.4, SW 16.5, HDWD/SVL 29.1 %, HLSQ/SVL 28.7 %, HLSQ/HDWD 98.6 %, EYNO/EYDM 77.7 %, TIBL/SVL 34.8 %, FOOT/SVL 39.4 %.
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A comparison of the female (KU 178417) with specimens of the original description of
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does not reveal any major differences, but there are subtle differences in size, amount of foot webbing, and coloration. The only adult female available from the
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locality is smaller (SVL = 41.0 mm) than the Ecuadorian female (SVL =
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). Nonetheless, the two additional adult females (deposited at Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, MECN) recorded from
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by
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have SVLs of 41.3 and
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. Thus, adult female size of the topotypic female is very close to the range of variation of Ecuadorian females. The extent of webbing described in the diagnosis and depicted (of a male) in
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is greater than that in the Ecuadorian female. However, the amount of webbing in several specimens (including a female) from the
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by
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is similar to that in the Ecuadorian female. In the
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the flanks are black and creamy white, whereas the flanks in Ecuadorian females are black and yellow. These color differences can be attributed to either intraspecific or geographic inter-population variation; however, sample sizes are too small to know with certainty.
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<emphasis id="CEDFEAFE5547FFE5FF24E5DDA355E395" bold="true" box="[198,776,898,924]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Distribution, ecology, and conservation status.</emphasis>
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is known only from paramo and subparamo habitats at elevations of
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on the eastern slopes of Cordillera Central in Departamento del Cauca in southern
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to the western slopes of Cordillera Occidental in Provincia Carchi in northern
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. The area of its extent of occurrence is of about
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2. In
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, it occurs in the Bosque de Neblina Montano Natural Formation (according to the classification proposed by
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Valencia
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1999
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). These localities lie in the high massif of the Nudo de Pasto, as defined by
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. At the Ecuadorian locality (
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SE Maldonado) annual mean rainfall is
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and the annual mean temperature is 14.2 °C (
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Hijmans
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2005
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). The Ecuadorian localities of
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are in close proximity to one locality of
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<emphasis id="CEDFEAFE5547FFE5FA61E2D4A0ACE4C0" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">A. pastuso</emphasis>
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at the western versant of Cordillera Occidental (
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); thus, they might have occurred in parapatry or sympatry at these localities.
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<emphasis id="CEDFEAFE5547FFE5FF24E2A4A1CAE51D" box="[198,407,1275,1300]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Atelopus angelito</emphasis>
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is considered to be Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) (A2ace, IUCN Red List categories and criteria). The species is tagged as Possibly Extinct until further surveys confirm otherwise. The population has declined dramatically (more than 80 %; see below) in the last two decades probably because of climate change and the impact of pathogens, that have affected many other montane species of
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.
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The last individual of this species was collected
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12 April
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in
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(
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) and there have been no additional efforts to find it. In
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, the last two living individuals were collected on
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, and no additional records exist since that date, in spite of seven occasional searching efforts by QCAZ parties (
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, 23 March 1993,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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) and intensive searching efforts in
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by MECN parties at seven nearby sites in Provincia Carchi (
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). Presence of the amphibian chytrid fungus was reported in an Ecuadorian locality near the localities for
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and for
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from
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W of Tulcán, Provincia Carchi, in 1993 (
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).
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