Ameerega silverstonei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dendrobatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Dendrobatoidea

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