Ameerega pulchripecta (Silverstone, 1976)
Phyllobates pulchripectus Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 43. Holotype: LACM 42297, by original designation. Type locality: "Serra do Navio, Territorio do Amapá, Brasil, about 120 m".
Dendrobates pulchripectus — Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.
Epipedobates pulchripectus — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., Săo Paulo, 36: 303.
Ameerega pulchripecta — 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
Silverstone's Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Beautiful-breasted Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49).
Blue-breasted Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; CITES).
Beautiful-breasted Poison Frog (CITES).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in the Guiana region of northern Brazil, near the Rio Amapari (tributary of the Rio Araguari), 100-310 m elevation.
Comment
Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 362-363, provided an account and placed this species in their Ameerega picta group.
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