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3 unusual facts about Atelopus


Ateleopus

:For the frog genus, see Atelopus.

For some time, it was known as Podateles, because Ateleopus had been used to replace the frog genus name Atelopus, which was deemed to be a spelling error.

James A. Peters

During his thirty years of research in herpetology he described seventeen new species or subspecies, most of them amphibians, such as a few Neotropical toads of the genus Atelopus.


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