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rSiasK* * amphibian-reptile-conservation.org Board of Directors Howard Craig Hassapakis ARC: Editor, Publisher, ARC: and Chairman of the Board Treasurer Clark, Jr USA Garcia and Associates, Franco Andreone Bruce Waldman of Directors, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, ITALY University of Peradeniya, SRI LANKA Virginia Commonwealth EGYPT Ted R Kahn KOREA Neotropical Conservation Eoundation, USA Indraneil Das Peter Uetz Michael Hutchins Chair, Department of Conservation and Science, American Zoo and Aquarium Association [1990-2005] and former Executive Director/CEO, The Wildlife Society [2005-2012], USA former DirectorAVihiam Suez University, USA Seoul National University, Madhava Meegaskumbura Adel Ibrahim & Associate Editor; USA University, MALAYSIA Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Walter R Erdelen Conway former Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences of the United Nations Educational, Scientihc and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); FRANCE Editor Craig Hassapakis Utah Valley University, USA Africa Issue Branch Port Elizabeth Museum, SOUTH AFRICA Bill Associate Editors Howard Erik Wild BRAZIL Belo Horizonte, Clark, Raul Diaz Jr Garcia and Associates, USA Mayra Oyervides La Sierra University, USA Branch Port Elizabeth Museum, SOUTH AFRICA Bill The University of Texas-Pan American, USA Copy Editor Ruthe Smith California, USA Editorial Board C Kenneth Dodd, University of Florida, USA Museo Regionale Commonwealth University, di Scienze Naturali, ITALY USA Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Gunther Kohler Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, GERMANY MALAYSIA Madhava Meegaskumbura University of Peradeniya, SRI LANKA Aurelio Ramirez-Bautista Javier Sunyer Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua-Leon, MEXICO NICARAGUA Larry David Wilson Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Manuel Acevedo Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, HONDURAS GUATEMALA Melissa Medina-Flores Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Ulisses Museu Janeiro, Rafaqat Masroor Museum of Natural History, PAKISTAN Zoological BRAZIL Roman Nazarov Museum, Moscow State University of Nis, SERBIA Jianping Jiang Chengdu Institute of Biology, Sciences, Chinese Academy of CHINA University, SOUTH KOREA Javier Alvar ado-Diaz Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, MEXICO Rdmulo Romeu da Nobrega Alves Universidade Estadual da Parafba, BRAZIL Antonio Salas Environment and Sustainable Development, Cesar Aguilar Universidad de San Marcos, Port Elizabeth Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic EGYPT Kangwon National University, RUSSIA Adel Ibrahim Suez University, Caramaschi Nacional, Universidade Federal Rio de HONDURAS SOUTH KOREA Daesik Park Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pakistan Seoul National University, Indraneil Das Peter Uetz Virginia Bruce Waldman Franco Andreone Jr PERU PERU Bill Branch Museum, SOUTH AFRICA Santiago J Sanchez-Pacheco University of Toronto, CANADA Copyright: © 2014 Lynch et al This is an open-access article distributed under Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs the terms of the Creative 3.0 Amphibian & Reptiie Conservation 8(1) [Special Sec]: 1-7 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use for non-commercial and education purposes only provided the original author ficial publication credit source: Amphibian and source are credited The & Reptile Conservation at: of- amphibian- reptile-conservation org Rediscovery of Andinophryne o/a//a/ Hoogmoed, 1985 (Anura, Bufonidae), an enigmatic and endangered Andean toad ^Ryan Lynch, ^Sebastian Kohn, ^Fernando Ayala- Varela, ^Paul S Hamilton, and ^Santiago R Ron L ^The Biodiversity Group, Tucson, Arizona, USA ^Rw Manduriacu Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Cooperative, Quito, ECUADOR ^Museo de Zoologia, Escuela de Biologia, ECUADOR — Abstract ^We report the rediscovery of Andinophryne olaiiai, an endangered species only known from a single specimen, collected in 1970 At the type locality, Tandayapa, Pichincha Province, numerous follow-up surveys after 1970 failed to record the species suggesting that the population is extinct The rediscovery of A oiailai took place in 2012 at Ri'o Manduriacu, Imbabura Province, Ecuador Two surveys suggest that a healthy population of A olaiiai survives at the site, with observations of froglets, juveniles, and adults across numerous stream systems However, the extent of known occupancy of the population is small (