Allobates zaparo (Silverstone, 1976)
Phyllobates zaparo Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 33. Holotype: KU 120669, by original designation. Type locality: "2 km west of Canelos, Provincia de Pastaza, Ecuador, 580 m."
Dendrobates zaparo — Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.
Epipedobates zaparo — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 303.
Allobates zaparo — Vences, Kosuch, Boistel, Haddad, La Marca, and Lötters, 2003, Organisms Divers. Evol., 3: 215. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.
English Names
Zaparo's Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Sanguine Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).
Sanguine Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; CITES).
Distribution
Dense forests of the Napo and Pastaza drainages of Ecuador, east of the Andes, extending to adjacent Peru; southern Cordillera Oriental of Peru.
Comment
In the former Epipedobates femoralis group prior to its transfer to Allobates by Vences, Kosuch, Boistel, Haddad, La Marca, and Lötters, 2003, Organisms Divers. Evol., 3: 215). See Schulte, 1987, Sauria, Berlin, 9: 17-18, for southern Peruvian record. Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 214-216; and Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 314-315, provided accounts.
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