Ameerega boehmei Lötters, Schmitz, Reichle, Rödder, and Quennet, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Ameerega > Species: Ameerega boehmei

Ameerega boehmei Lötters, Schmitz, Reichle, Rödder, and Quennet, 2009, Zootaxa, 2028: 22. Holotype: NKA 8469, by original designaiton. Type locality: "Serranía de Santiago, roughly 6 km east of Santiago de Chiquitos (1819′ S, 5934′ W, ca. 800 m above sea level), Chiquitanía region, Provincia San Jos de Chiquitos, Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Serranías de Santiago and Chochis, isolated Precambrian sandstone massifs in the Chiquitanía region of Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 720-800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

Most closely related to Ameerega flavopicta according to the original publication. French, Burkette, Reichle, and Brown, 2019, Zootaxa, 466`: 197–200, reported on larval morphology. In the Ameerega braccata species group of Guillory, French, Twomey, Chávez, Prates, von May, De la Riva, Lötters, Reichle, Serrano-Rojas, Whitworth, and Brown, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 142 (106638): 1–13.

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