Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006
Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 167. Type species: Phyllobates nubicola Dunn, 1924.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southwestern Costa Rica to to southwestern Colombia, below 1600 m elevation.
Comment
Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the sister taxon relationship of Silvrstoneia and Epipedobates.
Contained taxa
- Silverstoneia erasmios (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
- Silverstoneia flotator (Dunn, 1931)
- Silverstoneia nubicola (Dunn, 1924)
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