Adolfo Amézquita

Adolfo Amézquita, Colombian herpetologist.

• Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 12 taxon names authored by Adolfo Amézquita

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2011

• Brown, J.L., Twomey, E., Amézquita, A., Souza, M.B., Caldwell, J.P., Lötters, S., von May, R., Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Mejía-Vargas, D., Pérez-Peña, P., Pepper, M., Poelman, E.H., Sánchez-Rodríguez, M. & Summers, K. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). Zootaxa 3083(1): 1–120. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3083.1.1 Reference page. 

2012

• Lima, A.P., Erdtmann, L.K. & Amézquita, A. 2012. Advertisement call and colour in life of Allobates crombiei (Morales) “2000” [2002] (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the type Locality (Cachoeira do Espelho), Xingu River, Brazil. Zootaxa 3475(1): 86–88. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3475.1.8 Reference page. 

2013

• Acevedo, A.A., Wake, D.B., Márquez, R., Silva, K., Franco, R. & Amézquita, A. 2013. Two new species of salamanders, genus Bolitoglossa (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), from the eastern Colombian Andes. Zootaxa 3609(1): 69–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.1.5 Reference page. 
• Amézquita, A., Márquez, R., Medina, R., Mejía-Vargas, D., Kahn, T.R., Suárez, G. & Mazariegos, L. 2013. A new species of Andean poison frog, Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae), from the northwestern Andes of Colombia. Zootaxa 3620(1): 163–178. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.8 Reference page. 

2016

• Costa-Campos, C.E., Lima, A.P. & Amézquita, A. 2016. The advertisement call of Ameerega pulchripecta (Silverstone, 1976) (Anura, Dendrobatidae). Zootaxa 4136(2): 387–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.9. Reference page. 

2017

• Márquez, R., Mejía-Vargas, D., Palacios-Rodríguez, P., Ramírez-Castañeda, V. & Amézquita, A. 2017. A new species of Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Urabá region of Colombia. Zootaxa 4290(3): 531–546. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.3.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Amézquita, A., Suárez, G., Palacios-Rodríguez, P., Beltrán, I., Rodríguez, C., Barrientos, L.S., Daza, J.M. & Mazariegos, L. 2019. A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the cloud forests of Colombian western Andes. Zootaxa 4648(3): 537–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.3.8 Reference page. 

2022

• Amézquita, A., Daza, J.M., Contreras, L.A.B., Orejuela, C., Barrientos, L.S. & Mazariegos H., L.A. 2022. One more and one less: a new species of large bromelicolous lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Anadia) from the Andean cloud forests of northwestern Colombia and the phylogenetic status of Anadia antioquensis. Zootaxa 5150(2): 217–238. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.2.3 Reference page. 
• Palacios-Rodríguez, P., Daza, J.M., Mazariegos-H., L.A., Rendón, U. & Amézquita, A. 2022. A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) with a colourful venter from the cloud forests of Colombian western Andes. Zootaxa 5092(1): 67–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.1.3 Reference page. 

2023

• Amézquita, A., Mazariegos-H., L.A., Cañaveral, S., Orejuela, C., Barragán-Contreras, L.A. & Daza, J.M. 2023. Species richness under a vertebral stripe: integrative taxonomy uncovers three additional species of Pholidobolus lizards (Sauria, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the north-western Colombian Andes. Zookeys 1141: 119–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1141.94774 Reference page. 

2024

• Amézquita, A., Vargas-Salinas, F., Ramos, I., Palacios-Rodríguez, P., Salazar, E.N., Quiroz, M., Bolívar, W., Galindo-Uribe, D.M. & Mazariegos H., L.A. 2024. Molecular phylogenetics uncovers two new species in the genus Phyllobates (Anura, Dendrobatidae): the terrible frog gets two new sisters. ZooKeys 1212: 217–240. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1212.126733 Reference page.