Andinobates abditus (Myers and Daly, 1976)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Andinobates > Species: Andinobates abditus

Dendrobates abditus Myers and Daly, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 59: 1. Holotype: AMNH 89603, by original designation. Type locality: "lower montane rain forest at 1700 meters elevation, south-west of the Río Azuela bridge on the Quito--Lago Agrio road, eastern base of Volcán Reventador, Napo Province, Ecuador (latitude 0° 05′ S, longitude 77° 37′ W)".

Minyobates abditusMyers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 304.

Dendrobates abditusJungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 11, by implication.

Ranitomeya abditaGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171.

Andinobates abditus —Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas In Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 36.

Excidobates abditusColoma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 102. See comment. 

Common Names

Collins' Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

Secretive Poison Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi). 

Rana Venenosa Secretiva (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality at the base of the Volcán Reventador, southwest of the Río Azuela bridge on the Quito to Lago Agrio road, Napo, Ecuador, 2097 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Comparative larval and adult morphology was provided in the original publication. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogsezembed: 442-444, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya minuta group. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates abditus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 227. In the Andinobates bombetes species group of Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 35. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 102–104, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), and conservation. Based on the suspicions of  Almendáriz C., Ron, and Brito-M., 2012, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 52 (32): 387–399, Coloma and Duellman tentatively transferred Andinobates andinus into Excidobates. This requires genetic confirmation (DRF). 

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