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Andinobates altobueyensis (Silverstone, 1975)
Dendrobates altobueyensis Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 27. Holotype: LACM 71972, by original designation. Type locality: "summit marker of Alto del Buey, Departamento del Chocó, Colombia, 1070 m."
Minyobates altobueyensis — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 304.
Dendrobates altobueyensis — Jungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 11, by implication.
Ranitomeya altobueyensis — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171.
Andinobates altobueyensis —Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas In Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 30.
English Names
Alto de Buey Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Golden Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 48).
Golden Poison Frog (CITES).
Distribution
985-1070 m elevation on the Alto del Buey, a mountain in the Serranía de Baudó, Chocó, Colombia.
Comment
Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 444, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya minuta group. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates altobueyensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 228. In the Andinobates fulguritus species group of Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 30.
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