Adelphobates galactonotus (Steindachner, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Adelphobates > Species: Adelphobates galactonotus

Dendrobates galactonotus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 260. Holotype: NHMW 19189, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 44. Type locality: "Rio do Muría bei Sitio do S'Pedro Gurção, nördlich von Vigia zur F. reguezia [= Freguenzia]", Pará, Brazil. Name attributed by Steindachner to Fitzinger, but clearly Steindachner is responsible for the description.

Dendrobates paraensis Boulenger, 1913, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913: 1028-29. Syntypes: BMNH (8 specimens), by original designation; these being 1845.8.25.142, 1845.8.25.161, 1851.2.3.9, 1896.1.7.1, and 1904.7.26.9-11, by museum records. Type locality: "Para", Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 34, suggested the the type locality as "provàlvelmente Belém". Synonymy by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 27.

Adelphobates galactonotusGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

English Names

Splash-backed Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22).

Splashback Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).

Splash-backed Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49).

Splash-backed Poison Frog (CITES).

Distribution

Lowland forests of southern tributaries of the Amazon, from the Rio Tapajós east to the mouth of the Amazon, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See account by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 44-45. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 521-526, provided an account. Hoogmoed and Avila-Pires, 2012, Phyllomedusa, 11: 95-115, reported on color polymorphism (as Dendrobates galactonotus). Santos, Dantas, and Nomura, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 287–290, described the larva. Santos, Feio, and Nomura, 2023, Biota Neotrop., 23 (3:e20231486): 1–43, characterized tadpole morphology as part of an identification key to the tadpoles of the Brazilian Cerrado.  

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