Andinobates viridis (Myers and Daly, 1976)

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

Dendrobates viridis Myers and Daly, 1976, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 157: 247. Holotype: AMNH 88133, by original designation. Type locality: "in montane forest approximately 13 km west of Dagua (town), 850-1200 meters elevation on south-facing versant of upper Río Anchicayá drainage, Department of Valle, Colombia".

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

Dendrobates viridisJungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 11, by implication.

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

Andinobates viridis —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

Green Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

Distribution

Western slope of the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia (Cauca and Valle del Cauca), 100-1200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

See Myers and Daly, 1976, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 157: 249, for speculation on distribution. Restrepo-Toro and Bolívar-García, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 215-218, provided an account and map. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 458, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya minuta group. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates speciosus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 230. 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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