Andinobates claudiae (Jungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000)

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

Dendrobates mimulus Burton, 1998, Am. Mus. Novit., 3229: 10. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by T. Grant (personal commun.)

Dendrobates claudiae Jungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 12. Holotype: ZFMK 73561, by original designation. Type locality: "Panamá: Pronvincia Bocas del Toro: Festland westlich der Island Loma partida (82° 11′ W/09° 09′ N".

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

Andinobates claudiae —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: 30.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the region of the type locality in the province of Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Panama

Endemic: Panama

Comment

Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 447-448, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya minuta group. In the Andinobates minutus 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: 30, who also provided comparative adult and larval morphology. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 131–136, provided a key to the species of Andinobates, Dendrobates and Oophaga (as Dendrobates) in Central America and provided map and photographs of the species.

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