Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phyllobates flotator Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 389-390. Holotype: MCZ 16006, by original designation. Type locality: "Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone", Panama.

Phyllobates nubicola flotator — Dunn, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 74.

Colostethus flotator — Maxson and Myers, 1985, Biotropica, 17: 50-56. Ibáñez and Smith, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 446-456.

Silverstoneia flotator — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 167.

English Names

Rainforest Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Lowland rainforest and semideciduous forests of Panama and Costa Rica, possibly to extreme western Colombia.

Comment

Maxson and Myers, 1985, Biotropica, 17: 50-56, Rand and Myers, 1990, in Gentry (ed.), Four Neotropical Rainforests: 390, and Myers, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3010: 6, recognized this species as distinct from Silverstoneia nubicola (as Colostethus). Status reaffirmed by Ibáñez and Smith, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 446-456, who also provided an account. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 378-380, who noted that undescribed species may remain under this name.

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