Ameerega erythromos (Vigle and Miyata, 1980)
Dendrobates erythromos Vigle and Miyata, 1980, Breviora, 459: 2. Holotype: MCZ 96384, by original designation. Type locality: "Centro Científico, Río Palenque, 47 km S of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador, 170 m".
Epipedobates erythromos — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 303.
Phyllobates (Pseudendrobates) erythromos — Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 6.
Ameerega erythromos — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 130. by implication; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 164.
English Names
Palenque Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 25; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Distribution
Known from three localities in Pichincha Province, Ecuador (Centro Científico, Río Palenque, 47 km south of Santo Domingo de los Colorados; Bilsa; and 2 km east of El Esfuerzo).
Comment
Possibly conspecific with the type of Colostethus whymperi (now Hyloxalus whymperi) according to Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 55. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 390-391, provided an account. See Vigle, 1987, Herpetol. Rev., 18: 39, for second locality.
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