Allobates juanii (Morales, 1994)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates juanii

Colostethus juanii Morales, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 99. Holotype: KU 189427, by original designation. Type locality: "Villavicencio, 04° 09′ S, 73° 38′ W, Meta, Colombia, 467 m."

Allobates juaniiGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Northwestern Meta and adjacent easternmost Cundinamarca provinces in the eastern foothills of the eastern Andes, Colombia, 490 to 850 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

Lynch, 2006, Caldasia, 28: 139, noted that Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 48, provided an account of this species under the name Colostethus brunneus. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus juanii) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 223.

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