Arlequín angelito

distribution

Distribution, ecology, and conservation status. Atelopus angelito is known only from paramo and subparamo habitats at elevations of 2500 – 3000 m on the eastern slopes of Cordillera Central in Departamento del Cauca in southern Colombia to the western slopes of Cordillera Occidental in Provincia Carchi in northern Ecuador. The area of its extent of occurrence is of about 533 km 2. In Ecuador, it occurs in the Bosque de Neblina Montano Natural Formation (according to the classification proposed by Valencia et al. 1999). These localities lie in the high massif of the Nudo de Pasto, as defined by Duellman (1979). At the Ecuadorian locality (14 km SE Maldonado) annual mean rainfall is 1051 mm and the annual mean temperature is 14.2 ° C (Hijmans et al. 2005). The Ecuadorian localities of Atelopus angelito are in close proximity to one locality of A. pastuso at the western versant of Cordillera Occidental (Fig. 5); thus, they might have occurred in parapatry or sympatry at these localities. Atelopus angelito is considered to be Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) (A 2 ace, IUCN Red List categories and criteria). The species is tagged as Possibly Extinct until further surveys confirm

Five new (extinct?) species of Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae) from Andean Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru