Ameerega silverstonei (Myers and Daly, 1979)
Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, Am. Mus. Novit., 2674: 2. Holotype: AMNH 91844, by original designation. Type locality: "montane forest of Cordillera Azul, 1330 meters elevation, approximately 30 km airline northeast of Tingo María, Department of Huánuco, Peru. This locality lies alongside the gravel road from Tingo María to Pucallpa, about 5 km by road southwest of the road's crest at 1640 m elevation."
Epipedobates silverstonei — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., Săo Paulo, 36: 303.
Phobobates silverstonei — Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988, Salamandra, 24: 125-160.
Phyllobates (Pseudendrobates) silverstonei — Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 2.
Ameerega silverstonei — 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 (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Distribution
Cordillera Azul, Huánuco, Peru.
Comment
Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 186-193, provided an account. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 377-379, provided an account and placed this species in their Ameerega trivittata group.
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