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Ameerega altamazonica Twomey and Brown, 2008
Ameerega altamazonica Twomey and Brown, 2008, Zootaxa, 1757: 52. Holotype: MUSM 26937, by original designation. Type locality: Departamento San Martín, Perú, 3.5 km N of Tarapoto, Río Shilcayo drainage, 401 m elevation, 6° 27′ 44″ S, 76° 21′ 6″ W".
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Throughout the east-Andean versant and surrounding lowlands of central Peru at elevations of 150–865 m
Comment
The sister taxon of Ameerega rubriventris according to the original publication. See comment under Ameerega hahneli. Brown, Siu-Ting, von May, Twomey, Guillory, Deutsch, and Chávez, 2019, Zootaxa, 4712: 211–235, included this in their Ameerega rubriventris complex and mapped the range, which they restricted with the naming of Ameerega imasmari and Ameerega panguana. In the Ameerega hahneli species group of Guillory, French, Twomey, Chávez, Prates, von May, De la Riva, Lötters, Reichle, Serrano-Rojas, Whitworth, and Brown, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 142 (106638): 1–13.
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