Atelopus podocarpus

Jervis, Phillip, Karlsdόttir, Berglind, Jehle, Robert, Almeida-Reinoso, Diego, Almeida-Reinoso, Freddy, Ron, Santiago, Fisher, Matthew C. & Merino-Viteri, Andrés, 2020, Disease reservoirs threaten the recently rediscovered Podocarpus Stubfoot Toad (Atelopus podocarpus), Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 243) 14 (2), pp. 157-164 : 160

Bd and Atelopus podocarpus in Ecuador streams surrounding the lake system were unsuccessful at locating any more individuals. Tadpoles of G. yacuri , a recently described, locally endemic species ( Carvajal-Endara et al. 2019), were characterized by particularly high Bd prevalence (93%, n = 15) and infection loads. For Gastrotheca species in general, Yacuri had a significantly higher infection burden (P <0.05) than Madrigal and Urdaneta, the other two sites for which tadpoles were analyzed ( Fig. 3 ).

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Fig. 3. Comparison of infection burdens in Gastrotheca tadpoles between three of the six sites. The asterisks denote significant differences. The boxplot was produced in ggplot 2 (Ginestet 2011).