Ranitomeya benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008
Ranitomeya benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008, Zootaxa, 1823: 3. Holotype: MUSM 26957, by original designation. Type locality: "near Shucushuyacu (alternative spellings: Shucushyacu and Shucush-yacu), a small town on the east bank of Rio Huallaga near Yurimaguas, Departamento Loreto, Peru; 196 m elevation".
Dendrobates benedicta — Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol. (Suppl. Electronic Text), 7(3)e56: 0001-0014. By implication.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Throughout the lowland rainforest of the Pampas del Sacramento in southern Loreto and eastern San Martin, Peru.
Comment
In the Ranitomeya fantastica group according to the original publication. In the Ranitomeya reticulata 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: 47, and who provided an account on page 47-51.
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