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Allobates peruvianus (Melin, 1941)
Phyllobates peruvianus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 61. Holotype: NHMG 510, according to XXX. Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martín,] Perú".
Colostethus peruvianus — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.
Hyloxalus peruvianus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 169.
Allobates peruvianus — Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 45 (of supplemental text, see comment). Incorrectly referred to as Allobates peruensis, confusing the discussion but this is the name presumably intended.
English Names
Peru Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Lower Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Peru, 400-1500 m; possibly in adjacent Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Peru
Likely/controversial occurrence in political unit: Bolivia, Brazil
Endemic to the political unit: Peru
Comment
Morales, 1994, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 8: 100, provided an account. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Rivero and Almendáriz C., 1992 "1991", Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 16: 114, thought this species might extend into Ecuador. See Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12 (Special Issue): 60, commented on the nomenclatural confusion between Phyllobates peruensis Steindachner, and Phyllobates peruvianus Melin caused by Santos, Coloma, Summers, Caldwell, Ree, and Cannatella, 2009, PLoS Biol., 7(3)e56: 1–14 (supplemental text at https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000056#pbio-1000056-sd001).
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