Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Dendrobates granuliferus Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 10. Holotype: KU 43874, by original designation. Type locality: "on low mountains, north of the Río Diquis, about 3 miles north of Palmar [Norte], [Cantón de Osa,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 101, commented on the type locality.

Ranitomeya granuliferus — Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2.

Dendrobates granulifer — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 60. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (Art. 32.5.1, 1999 Code).

Oophaga granulifera — Bauer, 1994, Ripa, Netherlands, Fall: 4. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

English Names

Granular Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

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

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

Distribution

Lowland forests of the Golfo Dulce region of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica; presumably in adjacent Panama.

Comment

See accounts by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 760; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 36-37; and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 384-386 (who discussed natural and introduced populations within Costa Rica). Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 567-575, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates granuliferus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 229, who reported the range to possibly include southeastern Costa Rica and adjacent northwestern Panama.

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