Atelopus sorianoi La Marca, 1983

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 sorianoi La Marca, 1983 *

Holotype: CVULA IV-2783 .

Type locality: “ Bosque nublado 10 km SSE de Tovar, 2,718 m, Estado Mérida, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 1. Initially thought restricted to the type locality, but photographs of a specimen shown to T.R. Kahn by E. La Marca in 2007 indicated a population exists outside type locality. The type locality was destroyed by a landslide (pers. comm., T.R. Kahn from E. La Marca). Further work is required to determine if this disjunct population is extant.

Remarks: Not seen in the type locality since 1990; possibly extinct at the type locality, but also possibly extant at a disjunct valley not far from the type locality.

Selected references: La Marca (1983, 1992, 1995a,c); La Marca et al. (1989); Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (1995, 1999); Barrio (1996b); Lötters (1996); La Marca and Lötters (1997); Barrio-Amorós (2001, 2013); Rueda-Almonacid et al. (2005).