Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Prostherapis femoralis Barbour, 1905, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 46: 101. Syntypes: MCZ 2422, by original designation (originally 22 specimens, some of which sent to other museums), USNM 52406 and 118232-33 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 71), BMNH 1947.2.13.92-93, UMMZ 48070; BMNH 1947.2.13.93 designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 29. Type locality: "Gorgona Island", Departamento Nariño, Colombia. Junior homonym of Prostherapis femoralis Boulenger, 1884 "1883".

Prostherapis boulengeri Barbour, 1909, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 22: 87. Replacement name for Prostherapis femoralis Barbour, 1905.

Phyllobates boulengeri — Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 402. Parker, 1926, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 17: 553; Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 5.

Colostethus boulengeri — Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 757.

Dendrobates boulengeri — Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.

Epipedobates boulengeri — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 303.

Ameerega boulengeri — 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.

English Names

Marbled Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 25; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

Marbled Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49).

Distribution

Dense, wet forests of Gorgona I. and the wet southern Chocoan region from the lower San Juan drainage of western Colombia south to northwestern Ecuador.

Comment

Lötters, Reichle, and Jungfer, 2003, J. Nat. Hist., 37: 1899-1911, suggested on the basis of call evidence that this name covers at least two species. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 404-408, provided an account and suggested that nominal Epipedobates boulengeri may be a complex of species.

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