Oophaga sylvatica (Funkhouser, 1956)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Oophaga > Species: Oophaga sylvatica

Dendrobates histrionicus sylvaticus Funkhouser, 1956, Zoologica, New York, 41: 73. Holotype: CAS-SU (formerly SU) 10568, by original designation. Type locality: "Hacienda Espinosa, elevation about 1,000 ft., 9 km. west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Province of Pichincha, north-western Ecuador".

Oophaga sylvaticaGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

Dendrobates sylvaticusStuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614.

Common Names

Little Devil Poison Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxii). 

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

Distribution

Southwestern Colombia (Cauca and Nariño departments) and northwestern Ecuador (Carchi, Pichincha, Esmeraldas, Manabí, Cotopaxi, Imbabura, Santo Domingo de Tsáchilas, and Los Rios provinces), below 1000 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 614-618, provided an account. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates sylvaticus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 166–173, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on pp. 563–564) the advertisement call.

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