Atelopus mucubajiensis Rivero, 1972

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 9

Atelopus mucubajiensis Rivero, 1972 *

Holotype: BM 1971 .763.

Type locality: “ Región de Mucubají , Santo Domingo, 3,100 m, Estado Mérida, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 1. Surroundings of the type locality, páramo and subpáramo, 2,800 –3,500 m asl.

Remarks: In September 2004, the last known individual was delivered to CBA (Barrio-Amorós 2004). Soon afterwards a project was begun to search for the species ( Barrio-Amorós 2009a), but unfortunately this effort yielded no positive results despite an intensive search effort. The female individual died a few weeks after being received and tested weakly positive for the presence of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd; Lampo et al. 2007).

Selected references: Rivero (1972, 1980); La Marca et al. (1989); La Marca (1994, 1992, 1995a,c); Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (1995, 1999); Barrio (1996b); Durant and Díaz (1996); Lötters (1996); La Marca and Lötters (1997); Barrio-Amorós (2001, 2004, 2009a); Rueda-Almonacid et al. (2005); Lampo et al. (2007); Barrio-Amorós and Torres (2010).