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Atelopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Atelopus
Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Atelopus is a large genus of true toads natively distributed in Costa Rica to Bolivia and French Guiana. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicatas Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... For other uses, see Amphibian (disambiguation). ... Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia The Anura is the order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. ... For other uses, see Toad (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Toad (disambiguation). ...


Species

  • Atelopus andinus Rivero, 1968.
  • Atelopus angelito Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 1998.
  • Atelopus arsyecue Rueda-Almonacid, 1994.
  • Atelopus arthuri Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus balios Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus bomolochos Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus boulengeri Peracca, 1904.
  • Atelopus carauta Ruiz-Carranza & Hernández-Camacho, 1978.
  • Atelopus carbonerensis Rivero, 1974.
  • Atelopus carrikeri Ruthven, 1916.
  • Atelopus certus Barbour, 1923.
  • Atelopus chiriquiensis Shreve, 1936.
  • Atelopus chocoensis Lötters, 1992.
  • Atelopus chrysocorallus La Marca, 1996.
  • Atelopus coynei Miyata, 1980.
  • Atelopus cruciger (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856).
  • Atelopus dimorphus Lötters, 2003.
  • Atelopus ebenoides Rivero, 1963.
  • Atelopus elegans (Boulenger, 1882).
  • Atelopus erythropus Boulenger, 1903.
  • Atelopus eusebianus Rivero & Granados-Díaz, 1993.
  • Atelopus exiguus Boettger, 1892.
  • Atelopus famelicus Rivero & Morales, 1995.
  • Atelopus farci Lynch, 1993.
  • Atelopus flavescens Duméril & Bibron, 1841.
  • Atelopus franciscus Lescure, 1974.
  • Atelopus galactogaster Rivero & Serna, 1993.
  • Atelopus glyphus Dunn, 1931.
  • Atelopus guanujo Coloma, 2002.
  • Atelopus guitarraensis Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001.
  • Atelopus halihelos Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus ignescens (Cornalia, 1849).
  • Atelopus laetissimus Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo & Hernández-Camacho, 1994.
  • Atelopus limosus Ibáñez, Jaramillo & Solís, 1995.
  • Atelopus longibrachius Rivero, 1963.
  • Atelopus longirostris Cope, 1868.
  • Atelopus lozanoi Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001.
  • Atelopus lynchi Cannatella, 1981.
  • Atelopus mandingues Osorno-Muñoz, Ardila-Robayo & Ruiz-Carranza, 2001.
  • Atelopus mindoensis Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus minutulus Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho & Ardila-Robayo, 1988.
  • Atelopus monohernandezii Ardila-Robayo, Osorno-Muñoz & Ruiz-Carranza, 2002.
  • Atelopus mucubajiensis Rivero, 1974.
  • Atelopus muisca Rueda-Almonacid & Hoyos, 1992.
  • Atelopus nahumae Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo & Hernández-Camacho, 1994.
  • Atelopus nanay Coloma, 2002.
  • Atelopus nepiozomus Peters, 1973.
  • Atelopus nicefori Rivero, 1963.
  • Atelopus oxyrhynchus Boulenger, 1903.
  • Atelopus pachydermus (Schmidt, 1857).
  • Atelopus palmatus Andersson, 1945.
  • Atelopus pedimarmoratus Rivero, 1963.
  • Atelopus peruensis Gray et Cannatella, 1985.
  • Atelopus petriruizi Ardila-Robayo, 1999.
  • Atelopus pictiventris Kattan, 1986.
  • Atelopus pinangoi Rivero, 1982.
  • Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875.
  • Atelopus pulcher Boulenger, 1882.
  • Atelopus quimbaya Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994.
  • Atelopus reticulatus Lötters, Haas, Schick & Böhme, 2002.
  • Atelopus sanjosei Rivero & Serna, 1989.
  • Atelopus seminiferus Cope, 1874.
  • Atelopus senex Taylor, 1952.
  • Atelopus sernai Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994.
  • Atelopus simulatus Ruiz-Carranza & Osorno-Muñoz, 1994.
  • Atelopus siranus Lötters & Henzl, 2000.
  • Atelopus sonsonensis Vélez-Rodriguez & Ruiz-Carranza, 1997.
  • Atelopus sorianoi La Marca, 1983.
  • Atelopus spumarius Cope, 1871.
  • Atelopus spurrelli Boulenger, 1914.
  • Atelopus subornatus Werner, 1899.
  • Atelopus tamaensis La Marca, García-Pérez & Renjifo, 1990.
  • Atelopus tricolor Boulenger, 1902.
  • Atelopus varius (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856).
  • Atelopus vogli Müller, 1934.
  • Atelopus walkeri Rivero, 1963.
  • Atelopus zeteki Dunn, 1933.

  Results from FactBites:
 
Atelopus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (115 words)
Atelopus is a large genus of true toads natively distributed in Costa Rica to Bolivia and French Guiana.
Atelopus mittermeieri Velasquez-Alvarez, Sanchez-Pacheco, Pena Prieto et al., 2006.
Atelopus reticulatus Lötters, Haas, Schick and Böhme, 2002.
Atelopus ebenoides at AllExperts (231 words)
The painted frog (Atelopus ebenoides), a species of true toad, lives only in Colombia.
The northern population (called Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei) may be a separate species and occurs only in the Boyacá Department, in the Cordillera Oriental.
Atelopus ebenoides, Cadena, A., Acosta-Galvis, A., Bolívar, W. & Lynch, J. In: IUCN 2006.
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