Dendrobates auratus (Girard, 1855)
Phyllobates auratus Girard, 1855 "1854", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 226. Holotype: Not stated; probably USNM 10307 according to Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88; stated to be USNM 10307 by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69. Type locality: "Island of Taboga, in the Bay of Panama".
Dendrobates latimaculatus Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 125. Holotype: BMNH 52.12.11.8, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 40. Type locality: "Isthmus of Darien [Panama]". Tentative synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 635. Synonymy by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11, 40.
Hylaplesia aurata — Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 49.
Dendrobates tinctorius var. auratus — Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 261.
Dendrobates trivittatus var. aurata — Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 618.
Dendrobates amoenus Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 627. Holotype: NHMW 16514 (formerly 1904.111.95) according to Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88, and Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 16 (formerly in Zoologisches Museum Königsberg, Germany). Type locality: "Costa Rica". Synonymy by Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88; Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 759-760.
Dendrobates auratus — Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 393. Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 107.
Hylaplesia tinctoria latimaculata — Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88. Attributed incorrectly to Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 125.
Dendrobates tinctorius auratus — Laurent, 1942, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 18: 12.
English Names
Gold Arrow-poison Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 84).
Green and Black Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Green and Black Poison-dart Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Green and Black Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Green Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Green and Golden Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Golden Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Green Poison Frog (CITES).
Distribution
Humid lowlands from southern Nicaragua to the Golfo de Urabá in Colombia on the Caribbean and on the Pacific versant from southwestern Costa Rica through Panama to the lower Atrato River drainage of western Colombia, 0-800 m elevation; introduced in Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
Comment
See account by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 759-760, and Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 40. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 383-384. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 531-538, provided an account. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.
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