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Ameerega planipaleae (Morales and Velazco, 1998)
Epipedobates planipaleae Morales and Velazco, 1998, Amphibia-Reptilia, 19: 370. Holotype: MUSM 16542, by original designation. Type locality: "quebrada Llamaquizú; a 6 km del pueblo de Oxapampa; 10° 39′ S, 75° 27′ W aprox.; 2,010 m de altitud; ladera occidental del Parque Nacional Yanachaga-Chemillen; provincia de Oxapampa; Pasco, Perú".
Ameerega planipaleae — 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.
Common Names
Oxapampa Poison Frog (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 231).
Distribution
Region of the town of Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru, ca. 2010 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 359, provided an account and placed this species in their Ameerega picta group. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Epipedobates planipaleae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 231. Medina-Müller and Chávez, 2008 "2007", Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 4: 64, reported on geographic variation at the type locality. In the Ameerega macero 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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