Check List 15(3): 415-419, doi: 10.15560/15.3.415
Rediscovery of the Endangered Carchi Andean Toad, Rhaebo colomai (Hoogmoed, 1985), in Ecuador, with comments on its conservation status and extinction risk
Carolina Reyes-Puig‡§, Gabriela B. Bittencourt-Silva|, María Torres-Sánchez¶, Mark Wilkinson#, Jeffrey W. Streicher¤, Simon T. Maddock«, Ramachandran Kotharambath», Hendrik Müller˄, Francesca Nicole Angiolani Larrea˅, Diego Almeida-Reinoso¦ˀ, Santiago R. Ronˁ, Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia₵‡ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador§ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador| The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom¶ Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Madrid, Spain# Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom¤ Natural History Museum , london, United Kingdom« Natural History Museum, University of Wolverhampton, School of Sciences, London, United Kingdom» Central University of Kerala , Kerala, India˄ Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany˅ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador , Quito, Ecuador¦ Programa de Cría de Insectos en Granja, Quito, Ecuadorˀ Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuadorˁ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador₵ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Quito, Ecuador., Quito, Ecuador
Corresponding author: Carolina Reyes-Puig ( carolina_reyes.88@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Marcelo Gehara © Carolina Reyes-Puig, Gabriela B. Bittencourt-Silva, María Torres-Sánchez, Mark Wilkinson, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Simon T. Maddock, Ramachandran Kotharambath, Hendrik Müller, Francesca Nicole Angiolani Larrea, Diego Almeida-Reinoso, Santiago R. Ron, Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Reyes-Puig C, Bittencourt-Silva GB, Torres-Sánchez M, Wilkinson M, Streicher JW, Maddock ST, Kotharambath R, Müller H, Larrea FNA, Almeida-Reinoso D, Ron SR, Cisneros-Heredia DF (2019) Rediscovery of the Endangered Carchi Andean Toad, Rhaebo colomai (Hoogmoed, 1985), in Ecuador, with comments on its conservation status and extinction risk. Check List 15(3): 415-419. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.3.415 |  |
Abstract
Since 1984 there have been no records of Rhaebo colomai (Hoogmoed, 1985) within the territory of Ecuador. This species was known from 2 localities in the province of Carchi, northwestern Ecuador, and the department of Nariño, southwestern Colombia, which were reported in 1979 and 2015, respectively. We report the recent sightings of R. colomai at 3 new localities in Ecuador and discuss and evaluate this species’ extinction risk and conservation status.
Keywords
Biodiversity threats, Bufonidae, Dracula Reserve, population decline