Dendrobates leucomelas Steindachner, 1864

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Dendrobates > Species: Dendrobates leucomelas

Common Names

Yellow-banded Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22).

Yellow-headed Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

Yellow-banded Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49).

Distribution

Guianan Orinoco drainage of Venezuela north to the Río Orinoco, east into Guyana to the Essequibo River, south into extreme northern Brazil, and west into eastern Amazonian Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela

Comment

See accounts by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 168-169, Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 26; and Hoogmoed and Gorzula, 1979, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 54: 188-189. See distributional comments by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 24-25. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 35-41, discussed the Venezuelan distribution. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 539-544, provided an account. Doan, Nowacki, and Roberts, 2012, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 886: 1-6, provided a detailed account. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 391-392, for brief account and records for Guyana. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 122–123, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 51, for comments on range and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana.

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