? Atelopus varius
Estado de conservación
IUCN 3.1
Clasificación científica
Reino:	Animalia
Filo:	Chordata
Clase:	Amphibia
Orden:	Anura
Familia:	Bufonidae
Género:	Atelopus
Especie:	A. varius
Nombre binomial
Atelopus varius (Linnaeus, 1771)

Atelopus varius es una especie de anfibios de la familia Bufonidae. Habita en la frontera entre Costa Rica y Panamá.

Está amenazada de extinción por la pérdida de su hábitat natural.

Referencias

• Crump, M.L. 1986. Homing and site fidelity in a Neotropical frog, Atelopus varius (Bufonidae). Copeia 1986(4): 1007-1009.
• Crump, M.L. 1988. "Aggression in harlequin frogs: male-male competition and a possible conflict of interest between the sexes." Animal Behaviour 36(4): 1064-1077.
• Crump, M.L., and J.A. Pounds 1985. "Lethal Parasitism of an Aposematic Anuran (Atelopus varius) by Notochaeta bufonivora (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)." Journal of Parasitology 71(5), 588-591.
• Lips, K.R. 1999. Mass mortality and population declines of anurans at an upland site in western Panama. Conservation Biology 13: 117-125.
• Lips, K.R., Green, D.E. and Papendick, R. 2003. Chytridiomycosis in wild frogs from southern Costa Rica. Journal of Herpetology 37: 215-218.
• Pounds, J.A., Bustamante, M.R., Coloma, L.A., Consuegra, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., Foster, P.N., La Marca, E., Masters, K.L., Merino-Viteri, A., Puschendorf, R., Ron, S.R., Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.A., Still, C.J. and Young, B.E. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439: 161-167.
• Pounds, J.A., and Crump, M.L. 1987. "Harlequin Frogs Along a Tropical Montane Stream: Aggregation and the Risk of Predation by Frog-Eating Flies." Biotropica 19(4): 306-309.
• Pounds, J.A. and Crump, M.L. 1994. Amphibian declines and climate disturbance: The case of the golden toad and the harlequin frog. Conservation Biology 8: 72-85.
• Pounds, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., and J.H. Campbell 1999. "Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain." Nature 398(6728): 611-615.
• Savage, J.M. 1972. The harlequin frogs, genus Atelopus, of Costa Rica, and western Panama. Herpetologica 28: 77-94.
• IUCN 2006. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<http://www.iucnredlist.org/>.

Enlaces externos

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