Class Amphibia - Amphibians » order Anura » family Bufonidae - Toads - Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Atelopus fransiscus - Lescure, 1974
Size male: 25 mm.
Size female: 30 mm.

Atelopus limosus  
Atelopus franciscusAtelopus franciscus
  
  
Atelopus franciscusAtelopus franciscus - ventral side
  
  

Geographic Range
Native to French Guiana.
This species has been discovered in the central coast area of Frech Guyana. The altitudes where it has been found are between 5-200 meter above sea level (asl)

  

Population

This species is locally quite common in the central coast area of French Guiana. Several animals were found in the surrounding of Cacao (Beneats, v/d Meulen, Bartelds, Vilette).

  

Habitat
This is a terrestrial species inhabiting tropical lowland forest. Breeding and larval development takes place in forest streams and creeks. The tadpoles adhere to rocks.

  
  
  
 References, more information & links
 Philippe Gaucher & Brice P. Noonan (2005) - Phylogeography and demography of Guianan harlequin toads (Atelopus): diversification within a refuge. PDF accessible.
  

 

 
 
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Who are we?

We are Marcus Bartelds from the Netherlands and Dennis Nilsson from Sweden. We both work at a ICT company and in our sparetime we try to visit south and central america as much as we can.

Knowledge

Half of the world’s amphibian species could vanish in our lifetime, resulting in the single largest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

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To build this website we recieved some help and pictures. Special thanks go to R. Stuster and J. Yeager. We'd also like to thank; B. Vilette, J. v/d Meulen, G. Benaets, G. Bartelds, E. Twomey, C. Barrio, D. Mejia Vargas, J. Meere.

 

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