Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978
Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 313. Holotype: AMNH 88876, by original designation. Type locality: "lowland rain forest at Quebrada Guanguí, about 0.5 km above its junction with Río Patia, 100-200 m elevation, in upper Río Saija drainage, Department of Cauca, Colombia".
English Names
Golden Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 28; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).
Distribution
Region of the type locality (Cauca, Colombia), 100-200 m elevation.
Comment
See Lötters, Castro-Herrera, Köhler, and Richter, 1997, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 24: 55-58. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 431-433, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 236. Nowacki and Doan, 2012, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 888: 1-5, provided a detailed account.
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