Andinobates fulguritus (Silverstone, 1975)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Andinobates > Species: Andinobates fulguritus

Dendrobates fulguritus Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 28. Holotype: LACM 42319, by original designation. Type locality: "Playa de Oro, Departamento del Chocó, Colombia, 160 m."

Minyobates fulguritusMyers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 304.

Dendrobates fulguritusJungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 11.

Ranitomeya fulguritaGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171.

Andinobates fulguritus —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

Yellowbelly Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

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

Yellow-bellied Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; CITES).

Distribution

East-central Panama to northerwestern Colombia (Chocó, Risaralda), 160–800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Panama

Comment

Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 449-451, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya minuta group. 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. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 131–136, provided a key to the species of Andinobates, Dendrobates, and Oophaga (as Dendrobates) in Central America and provided a map and photograph of this species. 

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