Rheobates pseudopalmatus (Rivero and Serna, 2000)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae > Genus: Rheobates > Species: Rheobates pseudopalmatus

Colostethus pseudopalmatus Rivero and Serna, 2000 "1995", Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 2: 55. Holotype: MHNCSJ 2216, by original designation. Type locality: "Amalfi (Los Auribios), 144 km. al noroeste de Medellín, alrededor de 100-1500 m, Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia".

Rheobates pseudopalmatusGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 159.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Subandean forest on the northern and eastern slope of the Cordillera Central in the Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia, 800 to 1500 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

Prior to the revision of Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, in group VI of Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3-32, most similar to Colostethus palmatus, according to the original publication. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 160, suggested that this taxon may be conspecific with Rheobatates palmatus.

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