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3 unusual facts about Atelopus


Ateleopus

:For the frog genus, see Atelopus.

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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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