Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Dendrobates talamancae Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 102. Type(s): ANSP or USNM; lost, according to Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 390. Type locality: "near Old Harbour [=Puerto Viejo], on the East coast, [Cantón de Limón, Provincia Limón,]" Costa Rica.

Hylaplesia talamancae — Brocchi, 1882, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 2): 88-89.

Dendrobates talamancae — Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 630.

Phyllobates talamancae — Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 159.

Colostethus talamancae — Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 758. Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.

Allobates talamancae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

English Names

Talamanca Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).

Distribution

Extreme southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica through Panama and western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador, 0-800 m.

Comment

Not assigned to species group by Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3-32. See accounts by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 758-759, Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 51, and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 381-382. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.

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