Silverstoneia nubicola (Dunn, 1924)
Phyllobates nubicola Dunn, 1924, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 151: 7. Holotype: UMMZ 58292, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 19. Type locality: "rain forest above Boquete on the trail to Chiriquí Grande, 4500 feet [1372 m]", Provincia Chiriquí, Panama.
Phyllobates nubicola nubicola — Dunn, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 70.
Colostethus nubicola — Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 755.
Silverstoneia nubicola — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 167.
English Names
Boquete Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Humid premontane forests in southwestern Costa Rica through Panama to western Colombia (Chocó), 200-1600 m.
Comment
Discussed by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 755-757, and Ibáñez and Smith, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 446-456. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 380-381.
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