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Ameerega yoshina Brown and Twomey, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Ameerega

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Ameerega yoshina Brown and Twomey, 2009, Zootaxa, 2049: 10. Holotype: MUSM24945, by original designation. Type locality: "Departamento Loreto, Peru, 17.5 km NE Contamana at the western foot of the Serranía de Contamana, 310 m elevation, 7° 11′7.43″ S, 74° 57′ 13.12″ W. Found near El Unión, on the ground near a small creek flowing into the coldwater stream."

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Currently known only from a locality in the Serranía de Contamana and the other 130 km away in the Huallaga Canyon in the northern Cordillera Azul , Departamento Loreto, Peru.

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