Allobates gasconi (Morales, 2002)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates gasconi

Colostethus gasconi Morales, 2002 "2000", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 13: 30. Holotype: INPA 3082, by original designation. Type locality: "Jainu al lado izguierdo del Río Juruá, Amazonas, Brasil". See comment below. 

Allobates gasconiGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

In the valley of the Río Juruá in the states of Acre and Amazonas, Brazil, ca. 100–250 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Colostethus trilineatus group according to the original publication. See comment under AllobatesMelo-Sampaio, Oliveira, and Prates, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 134, 143, corrected various items in the description of the holotype and noted geographic variation in the species that deserves further attention. See comment under Allobates albiventris, which was formerly confused with this species. 

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