Oreobates zongoensis

Oreobates zongoensis is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is endemic to Bolivia and only known from a single specimen, the holotype, from Valle del Zongo, in the Pedro Domingo Murillo Province.[1][2][4] This species might already be extinct.[1][4]

Oreobates zongoensis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Genus: Oreobates
Species:
O. zongoensis
Binomial name
Oreobates zongoensis
(Reichle and Köhler, 1997)
Synonyms[2]

Eleutherodactylus zongoensis Reichle and Köhler, 1997[3]

Description

The holotype, an adult male, measures 29 mm (1.1 in) in snout–vent length. The head is slightly wider than the body and slightly wider than it is long. The snout is subacuminate. The canthus rostralis is evident. The tympanum is visible. Skin of head, dorsum, flanks, and hind limbs strongly and uniformly tuberculate, while skin of forelimbs and ventral surfaces is smooth. The fingers and toes have small discs but no webbing or lateral fringes. The head, dorsum, and flanks are dark pinkish brown, without any markings. The upper surfaces of forelimbs and posterior hind limbs are purple to brown, while the chest and ventral sides of forelimbs pinkish and the venter and ventral sides of hind limbs are pinkish brown. The iris is orange and has fine, black reticulum.[3]

Habitat and conservation
Oreobates zongoensis is only known from the Zongo Valley in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province, Bolivia

Oreobates zongoensis is only known from the holotype from Zongo Valley.[1][2][4] The holotype was collected during daytime in a small cavity under a large stone in disturbed montane rainforest at elevation of 1,250 m (4,100 ft) above sea level.[1][3]

The type locality has been entirely destroyed with the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, and it is not known whether the species still survives as efforts to find it have not been successful.[1][4]

References
  1. Cortez, C.; Reichle, S.; De la Riva, I. & Köhler, J. (2004). "Oreobates zongoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T57067A11576375. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T57067A11576375.en.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Oreobates zongoensis (Reichle and Köhler, 1997)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. Reichle, Steffen; Köhler, Jörn (1997). "A new species of Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Andean slopes of Bolivia". Amphibia-Reptilia. 18 (4): 333–337. doi:10.1163/156853897X00387.
  4. Cortez Fernandez, Claudia (2009). "Anfibios del Valle de Zongo (La Paz, Bolivia): I. Evaluación del estado de conservación" [Amphibians in Zongo valley (La Paz, Bolivia): I. Assessment of the conservation status] (PDF). Ecología en Bolivia (in Spanish and English). 44 (2): 109–120.
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