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Oophaga speciosa (Schmidt, 1857)
Dendrobates speciosus Schmidt, 1857, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 24: 12. Syntypes: KM 1017/1345 (9 specimens), lost according to Savage, 1970, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 38: 273–288, who noted one additional syntype in the NHMW; Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 16, and Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 16, recorded two specimens, NHMW 16518 and 16513, as syntypes. Type locality: "Neu-Granada"; restricted to "der Weg zwischen Bocca del toro und dem Vulcan Chiriqui [Panama]. . . zwischen 5000′ und 7000′ [Polish feet, therefore = 1150-1160 m, according to Savage, 1970, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 38: 273–288] Höhe" by Schmidt, 1858, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 14: 249.
Hylaplesia speciosa — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 126.
Dendrobates speciosus — Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 763; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.
Oophaga speciosa — Bauer, 1994, Ripa, Netherlands, Fall: 4; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.
Common Names
Splendid Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 24; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Splendid Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).
Distribution
Cloud forest at 1140–1410 m at eastern end of Cordillera de Talamanca in western Panama.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Panama
Endemic: Panama
Comment
See accounts by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 763, Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 39. See also Edwards, Daly, and Myers, 1988, Lloydia, J. Nat. Prod., 51: 1188–1189. See comment under Oophaga pumilio. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 610–613, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates speciosus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 230. 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 a map and photograph of this species.
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