Ameerega bilinguis (Jungfer, 1989)

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

English Names

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

Ecuadorean Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 25).

Distribution

River systems of the Río Napo and Río Aguarico in northeastern Ecuador (provinces of Napo, Orellana, and Sucumbíos), adjacent Colombia (departments of Putumayo and Caquetá), and northwestern Peru in the Campuya watershed.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

The species had previously been confused with Ameerega parvula (as Epipedobates) according to the original publication. See comment under Ameerega ingeri. See account by Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 323-325, who placed this in their Ameerega picta group. Poelman, Verkade, and van Wijngaarden, 2010, J. Herpetol., 44: 409-417, reported on larval morphology. Venegas and Gagliardi-Urrutia, 2013, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Social Invent. Rep. 25: 255, reported the species from Peru. In the Ameerega parvula 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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