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

Seasonally flooded (várzea) forests along the middle and upper Juruá River in Brazil, and along the Yuyapichis River (affluent of the Pachita River, Ucayali Basin) in Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Peru

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. Ferreira, Ferrão, Cunha-Machado, Magnusson, Hanken, and Lima, 2024, Organisms Divers. Evol., 24: 99–118, reported on advertisement call, phylogenetic position, adult and larval morphology, natural history, and provided a revised diagnosis as well as noting that one of the paratypes (INPA-H 4889) may represent an unnamed species. 

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