Allobates granti (Kok, MacCulloch, Gaucher, Poelman, Bourne, Lathrop, and Lenglet, 2006)

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

Colostethus granti Kok, MacCulloch, Gaucher, Poelman, Bourne, Lathrop, and Lenglet, 2006, Phyllomedusa, 5: 46. Holotype: IRSNB 1932, by original designation. Type locality: "Montagne Belvédère, ca. 7 km SE from the village of Saül, French Guiana, 3° 37′ N, 53° 1′ W, elevation ca. 250 m.".

Allobates grantiFrost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 5.0; new combination by implication of revision provided by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 1-266.

Common Names

Black-flanked Poison Frog (Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 24).

Distribution

Central and southern French Guiana and Suriname (see comment) at elevations of 100–730 m; expected in Brazil but seemingly absent from northern Amapá, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: French Guiana, Suriname

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Comment

Confused with Anomaloglossus beebei and Allobates marchesianus prior to its description; see original publication for larval morphology and advertisement call. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 24-26, who noted that the Suriname populations have a different call than the populations in Guyana, suggested the need for further study. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 367, reported the species from the Mitaraka Massif in southwestern French Guiana, on the border with Amapá, Brazil (but noting its absence there). Réjaud, Rodrigues, Crawford, Castroviejo-Fisher, Jaramillo-Martinez, Chaparro, Glaw, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Moravec, De la Riva, Pérez-Peña, Lima, Werneck, Hrbek, Ron, Ernst, Kok, Driskell, Chave, and Fouquet, 2020, J. Biogeograph., 47: 2472–2482, noted a cryptic species (now Allobates vicinus) associated with this taxon. See Fouquet, Ferrão, and Jairam, 2023, Zootaxa, 5297: 533–561 noted an allied (Allobates aff. granti 2) mtDNA matrilines associated with this species in northern Pará, Brazil, and extreme southern Suriname. 

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