Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Dendrobates quinquevittatus Jan, 1857, Cenni Mus. Civ. Milano: 53. Type(s): MSNM. Type locality: Not stated. Nomen nudum attributed to Fitzinger and Tschudi, presumably on the basis of label names.

Dendrobates tinctorius var. quinquevittatus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 260. Holotype: NHMW 16517, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 1-55. Type locality: "Salto do Girao" (= Salto do Jirau), Rondônia, Brazil.

Dendrobates quinquevittatus — Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.

Ranitomeya quinquevittata — Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2. By implication.

Ranitomeya quinquevittata — Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 6.

Adelphobtes quinquevittatus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

English Names

Rio Madeira Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 24; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

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

Amazonian Poison Frog (CITES).

Distribution

Southern Amazonia, in the Rio Madeira drainage of western Brazil; known definitely only from Rondônia and in adjacent Amazonas; also found in neighboring Departamento Pando in Bolivia.

Comment

Account available in Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1-21. Most records of this species before 1990 refer to Adelphobates ventrimaculatus; see Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1-21. See also Martins and Haddad, 1990, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 52: 53-56, for discussion of identity. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 76-80, provided an account and a record for Peru, which was doubted by Lötters and Vences, 2001 "2000", Salamandra, 36: 247-260. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 527-529, provided an account.

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