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Ameerega bassleri (Melin, 1941)
Dendrobates bassleri Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 65. Holotype: NHMG 511, according to XXX. Type locality: "Roque, [San Martín,] Peru [1097 m]".
Phyllobates bassleri — Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.
Dendrobates bassleri — Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.
Ameerega bassleri — Bauer, 1986, Ripa, Netherlands, November: 7.
Epipedobates bassleri — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 303.
Phobobates bassleri — Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988, Salamandra, 24: 125-160.
Ameerega bassleri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 130, by implication; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 164.
English Names
Pleasing Poison Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49; Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 24; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Distribution
Amazon drainage of Peru in the departments of Huánuco and San Martín, from the eastern foothills of the Andes east to the Río Huallaga, 274-1097 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 180-186, provided an account. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 372-376, provided an account and placed this species in their Ameerega trivittata group. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Epipedobates bassleri) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614. In the Ameerega bassleri 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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