Ameerega silverstonei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Dendrobatidae
Subfamilia: Colostethinae
Genus: Ameerega
Species: Ameerega silverstonei

Name

Ameerega silverstonei (Myers & Daly, 1979)

Type locality: "montane forest of Cordillera Azul, 1330 meters elevation, approximately 30 km airline northeast of Tingo María, Department of Huánuco, Peru. This locality lies alongside the gravel road from Tingo María to Pucallpa, about 5 km by road southwest of the road's crest at 1640 m elevation."

Holotype: AMNH 91844.

Synonyms

Dendrobates silverstonei Myers & Daly, 1979
Epipedobates silverstonei — Myers, 1987
Phobobates silverstonei — Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988
Phyllobates (Pseudendrobates) silverstonei — Bauer, 1988
Ameerega silverstonei — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006

References

Myers and Daly, 1979, Am. Mus. Novit., 2674: 2.
Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 130.
Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Ameerega silverstonei . Accessed on 23 May 2008.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Ameerega silverstonei (Data Deficient) Downloaded on 23 May 2008. (as Epipedobates silverstonei)

Vernacular names

English: Silverstone's Poison Frog