Leucostethus siapida Grant and Bolívar-García, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Leucostethus > Species: Leucostethus siapida

Leucostethus siapida Grant and Bolívar-García, 2021, ZooKeys, 1057: 189. Holotype:CPZ-UV 7293, by origingal designation. Type locality: "immediately west of the housing complex at El Poblado, Gorgona Island, Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona, Guapi, Cauca Department, Colombia, 02°58′00.6″N, 78°10′27.4″W, ca. 30 m elevation". http://zoobank.org/757C0F3D-D62C-40E2-8F77-195C9234842D 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Gorgona Island, Cauca Department, Colombia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

External morphology and coloration, advertisement call, and testis pigmentation were described in the original publication in a comparative framework with other members of Leucostethus. Concluded by the original authors to be the sister taxon of Leucostethus bilsa

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