#guajira stubfoot toad

[toadschooled]

Tiny juvenile specimens of Guajira stubfoot toads [Atelopus carrikeri]. This species is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. They are critically endangered due to habitat loss and the spread of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Once thought to be extinct, this toad was rediscovered after 14 years by a Project Atelopus team in early 2008. The individuals above were photographed by Jay McGowan.

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[herpsandbirds]

Guajira Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus carrikeri), male, family Bufonidae, endemic to the Sierra Nevada of Colombia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Fundacion Atelopus

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[toadschooled]

This lovely specimen is a Guajira stubfoot toad [also known as the Carrikeri harlequin frog, Atelopus carrikeri], a species of endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. Destruction of their habitat and the spread of the chytrid fungus has left their population critically endangered. Their situation is so dire that they went unseen beginning in 1994, only for new specimens to be rediscovered in early 2008. Images by ProAves Colombia.

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[toadschooled]

Atelopus carrikeri, or the Guajira stubfoot toad, is a species endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. These extremely rare toads are known to possess two color phases. The golden specimen pictured here is of the most common variety, but a burnt orange color phase has recently been discovered as well. Images by ProAves Colombia.

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[toadschooled]

The Guajira stubfoot toad [Atelopus carrikeri] a Colombian resident that  looks like it lost a fight with a microwave. It is listed as critically endangered, with only 6 adults and many tadpoles having been seen in an expedition in 2008. [x] 

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