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Ranitomeya cyanovittata Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Ranitomeya

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Ranitomeya cyanovittata Pérez-Peña, Chávez, Twomey, and Brown, 2010, Zootaxa, 2439: 12. Holotype: CORBIDI02266, by original. Type locality: "Rio Blanco Basin near the Zona Reservada Sierra del Divisor, Departamento Loreto, Peru; 6º55′12″S, 73º50′45″W, 206 m elevation".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Currently known only in a small area in the vicinity of the Nueva Capanahua community, in the Río Blanco Basin near the Zona Reservada Sierra del Divisor, Departamento Loreto, Peru, 200-300 m elevation; possibly into adjacent Brazil.

Comment

In the Ranitomeya vanzolinii 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: 61, and who provided an account on page 61-64.

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