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The Golden Toe
A 1992 paper suggests that the species is simply still burrowing under the ground waiting for the right rains and the right temperatures to be able to emerge and do breeding. At around the time that the species was lost there was an El Nino southern oscillation occurring, which may have prevented them from mating. Tom: "It's a really sad paper to read in retrospect"