Ranitomeya ventrimaculata (Shreve, 1935)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Ranitomeya > Species: Ranitomeya ventrimaculata

Dendrobates minutus ventrimaculatus Shreve, 1935, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 213. Holotype: MCZ 19734, by original designation. Type locality: "Sarayacu, Ecuador".

Dendrobates ventrimaculatusDaly, Myers, and Whittaker, 1987, Toxicon, 25: 1025; Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1.

Dendrobates duellmani Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 69. Holotype: KU 221832, by original designation. Type locality: "San Jacinto, 2 km, nahe der ekuadadorianischen Grenze, Loreto, Peru". Synonymy by Brown, Twomey, and Poelman in Brown, Twomey, Amézquita, Souza, Caldwell, Lötters, von May, Melo-Sampaio, Mejía-Vargas, Pérez-Peña, Pepper, Poelman, Sanchez-Rodriguez, and Summers, 2011, Zootaxa, 3083: 59.

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

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

English Names

Amazonian Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 24; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

Distribution

Amazon drainage of Colombia (vicinity of Leticia), Ecuador, Peru, and into adjacent far western Amazonas and Acre, Brazil, from the foothills of the Andes east.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1-21, removed this species from the synonym of Ranitomeya quinquevittata (as Dendrobates), where it had been placed by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 33. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 17, provided a brief account as Dendrobates ventrimaculatusLescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 92–93, provided a brief account and photo. Symula, Schulte, and Summers, 2001, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 268: 2415–2421, suggested that Ranitomeya ventrimaculata is composed of two cryptic species, one of which is more closely related to Ranitomeya variabilis. Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 129-134 (Dendrobates ventrimaculatus), 470–471 (Dendrobates duellmani), provided an account. Fouquet, Gilles, Vences, Marty, Blanc, and Gemmell, 2007, PLoS One, 10 (e1109): 1–10, provided molecular evidence that this is a species complex. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 504-511, provided an account and placed this species in their Ranitomeya ventrimaculata group. Twomey and Brown, 2009, Zootaxa, 2302: 54, discussed the advertisement call. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. 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 59–61, redelimited the species (mapped), and transferred records from French Guiana to Ranitomeya amazonica. Estupiñán, Ferrari, Gonçalves, Barbosa, Vallinoto, and Schneider, 2016, ZooKeys, 637: 89–106, suggested on the basis of COI barcodes that cryptic species are likely. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 108, noted that records from Amapa, Brazil, apply to Ranitomeya variabilis.  Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 72–73, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.

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