scarlet harlequin toad
Scarlet Harlequin Toad
Scientific Name: ATELOPUS SORIANOI
Last Seen: 1990 IN VENEZUELA
Years Lost: 34
Red List Status: Critically Endangered
The rediscovery of this lost toad could be the key to better understanding how species rebound from the chytrid fungus that has decimated amphibians worldwide and hit harlequin toads particularly hard. The Scarlet Harlequin Toad has the most restricted geographic range of any Venezuelan Atelopus species and is known from a single stream in an isolated Venezuelan cloud forest.