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Ranitomeya fantastica (Boulenger, 1884)
Dendrobates fantasticus Boulenger, 1884 "1883", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 636. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.1–4 (formerly 1884.2.18.24–27) according to museum records; BMNH 1947.2.15.4 designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 35. Type locality: "Yurimaguas, Huallaga River, [Loreto,] Northern Peru".
Dendrobates phantasticus — Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 631. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Ranitomeya fantasticus — Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2.
Ranitomeya fantastica — Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 6; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 171.
English Names
Red-headed Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Cordillera Escalera and the lowlands to the north in Loreto, Peru.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 56–69, provided an account. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 472–475, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya ventrimaculata group. Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008, Zootaxa, 1823: 1–24, redelimited the species and its range and described the advertisement call and morphology. In the Ranitomeya reticulata 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: 47, and who provided an account on page 51–52. Records from the lower Huallaga River, San Martin Province, Peru, were reassigned by Muell, Chávez, Prates, Guillory, Kahn, Twomey, Rodrigues, and Brown, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 168 (107389): 1–10, to Ranitomeya summersi.
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