Ranitomeya amazonica (Schulte, 1999)
Dendrobates amazonicus Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 32. Holotype: MUSM (formerly R. Schulte Collection BD 3P), by original designation. Type locality: "Bosque UNAP, Iquitos (Peru), ca. 130 m NN".
Ranitomeya amazonica — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Widely separate populations: one in northwestern Amazonian Peru (Loreto), extreme southeastern Colombia (Amazonas) and expect in the adjacent borderlands of Brazil; extreme southern Guyana; eastern French Guiana; region of the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil.
Comment
Lötters and Vences, 2001 "2000", Salamandra, 36: 247-260, questioned the status of this taxon with respect to Ranitomeya ignea and Ranitomeya ventrimaculata (all as Dendrobates). Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 463-465, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya ventrimaculata group. In the Ranitomeya variabilis species group of Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, Von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Perez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 78, and who provided an account on page 78-85.
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