Hyloxalus chocoensis Boulenger, 1912

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Hyloxalus > Species: Hyloxalus chocoensis

Hylixalus chocoensis Boulenger, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 10: 190. Holotype BMNH 1947.2.14.27 (formerly 1910.7.11.67), according to Myers, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3010: 3, and museum records. Type locality: "Noananoa [= Noanama], Rio San Juan, [Departamento] Choco, S. W. Colombia, about 100 feet".

Hyloxalus chocoensisHellmich, 1939, Wochenschr. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Braunschweig, 36: 536; Hellmich, 1940, Zool. Anz., 131: 127; Dunn, 1944, Caldasia, 2: 403.

Prostherapis chocoensis —Dunn In Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 6, by implication; Dunn, 1957, Copeia, 1957: 77; by implication; Gorham, 1963, Canad. Field Nat., 77: 25.

Phyllobates chocoensisCochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 46.

Colostethus chocoensisEdwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Hyloxalus chocoensisGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.

English Names

Choco Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

East-central Panama (possibly discontinuously) to western Colombia, below 100 m elevation (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Panama

Comment

According to Myers, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3010: 1-15, all previous identifications of this species were wrong, and the Ecuadorian population may represent a distinct species. See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 25. Myers and Grant, 2009, Am. Mus. Novit., 3659: 1-12, assigned populations from northwestern Ecuador to the new Anomaloglossus confusus (Aromobatidae) and restricted the range of the species to the type locality (Chocó) and one locality in Antioquia, both in Colombia, thereby rendering all other populations assigned to this species without identifications. The Panama--Colombia range statement is retained until this is sorted out (DRF).

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