Hyloxalus edwardsi

Hyloxalus edwardsi (common name: Edwards' rocket frog) is a species of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae. It is endemic to the Cordillera Oriental in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia.[3][4] It is named after Stephen R. Edwards from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, a colleague of John D. Lynch who described this species in 1982.[2][5]

Hyloxalus edwardsi
Conservation status
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Dendrobatidae
Genus:	Hyloxalus
Species:	H. edwardsi
Binomial name
Hyloxalus edwardsi (Lynch, 1982)
Synonyms
Colostethus edwardsi Lynch, 1982[2]

Its natural habitats are streams within caves and crevices in paramos.[6][4] It is threatened by habitat loss.[6]

References

1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2017). "Hyloxalus edwardsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T55074A85893381.
2. Lynch, J. D. (1982). "Two new species of poison-dart frogs (Colostethus) from Colombia". Herpetologica. 38: 366–374. JSTOR 3892419.
3. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Hyloxalus edwardsi (Lynch, 1982)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
4. Acosta-Galvis, A.R. (2014). "Hyloxalus edwardsi (Lynch, 1982)". Lista de los Anfibios de Colombia V.05.2015.0. www.batrachia.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
6. Rueda, J.V. (2004). "Hyloxalus edwardsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 22 March 2015.old-form url