Check List 19(1): 47-50, doi: 10.15560/19.1.47
First records of the Truandó Toad, Rhaebo haematiticus (Cope, 1862) (Anura, Bufonidae) in the Middle Cauca river valley, Caldas, Colombia
Héctor Fabio Arias-Monsalve‡§, Luis Santiago Caicedo-Martínez§, Juan Felipe Cardona-Zuluaga§, Alexandra Cardona-Giraldo|, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves§‡ Fundación Ecológica Cafetera, Manizales, Colombia§ Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia| Universidad de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
Corresponding author: Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves ( hector.ramirez@ucaldas.edu.co ) Academic editor: Javier Ernesto Cortés Suárez © Héctor Fabio Arias-Monsalve, Luis Santiago Caicedo-Martínez, Juan Felipe Cardona-Zuluaga, Alexandra Cardona-Giraldo, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves. 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:
Arias-Monsalve HF, Caicedo-Martínez LS, Cardona-Zuluaga JF, Cardona-Giraldo A, Ramírez-Chaves HE (2023) First records of the Truandó Toad, Rhaebo haematiticus (Cope, 1862) (Anura, Bufonidae) in the Middle Cauca river valley, Caldas, Colombia. Check List 19(1): 47-50. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.1.47 |  |
Abstract
We present the first records of the Truandó Toad, Rhaebo haematiticus (Cope, 1862), in the inter-Andean valley of the Middle Cauca River, Colombia, the second largest inter-Andean basin of the country. In Colombia, this species has been extensively documented in the Chocó biogeographic region, on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental, in the valley of Magdalena River, and the foothills of the western slope of the northern Cordillera Oriental. Our records help fill an expansive hiatus in the known distribution of this species and increases the number of amphibians known to occur in the basin of the Cauca River.
Keywords
Amphibians, Cordilleras, distribution update, ecoregions, Inter-Andean basin