Critically Endangered
Puca Sapo
Atelopus guanujo
The Guanujo stubfoot toad, known in Spanish as puca sapo, is a possibly extinct species of toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Ecuador.
Appearance
Even so, this male appeared darker in color than previously known individuals, and there was speculation of it potentially being a hybrid between A. Guanujo and A. Ignescens.
Range and habitat
The Guanujo stubfoot toad, known in Spanish as puca sapo, is a possibly extinct species of toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The male died in captivity shortly afterwards as well, although its sperm was preserved.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
As with many other Atelopus species, it has been driven to near or total extinction due to chytridomycosis.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Puca Sapo is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Puca Sapo, Wikidata item Q2236388. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
