A new poison frog (Dendrobates) from Andean Colombia : with notes on a lowland relative. American Museum novitates ; no. 2899

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dc.contributor.authorMyers, Charles W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBurrowes, Patricia A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-10-06T18:08:16Z
dc.date.available2005-10-06T18:08:16Z
dc.date.issued1987en_US
dc.description17 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 17).en_US
dc.description.abstract"Dendrobates andinus, new species, is a small arboreal frog from wet montane forest (1700-2020 m elev.) on the Pacific versant of the Andes in extreme southwestern Colombia. Although its color pattern - yellowish dorsolateral stripes on a black or dark brown body - is reminiscent of two other Colombian species (D. truncatus and Phyllobates aurotaenia), D. andinus is not closely related to them. Dendrobates andinus is tentatively placed in the pictus species group, in which its closest relative seems to be D. erythromos Vigle and Miyata, from lowland rain forest on the Pacific side of Ecuador. The recently described 'Phyllobates' azureiventris Kneller and Henle, from Amazonian Peru, incidentally, is also transferred to the pictus group of Dendrobates. Natural history data for Dendrobates andinus include observations on courtship behavior and cephalic amplexus; individuals are most frequently associated with water-filled bromeliads, where clutches of three or four eggs are laid. Sound spectrograms and waveforms of the advertisement call of Dendrobates erythromos are provided for future comparison when recordings become available for D. andinus, whose call was perceived in the field as a series of well-spaced 'crreek' notes. The call of erythromos is termed a retarded chirp call and is briefly compared with the characteristic chirp call of the histronicus species of Dendrobates"--P. [1].en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2246/5183
dc.languageengen_US
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dc.publisherNew York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural Historyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerican Museum novitates ; no. 2899en_US
dc.subject.lccQL1 .A436 no.2899, 1987en_US
dc.subject.lcshDendrobates andinusen_US
dc.subject.lcshDendrobates erythromosen_US
dc.subject.lcshFrogs -- Colombiaen_US
dc.subject.lcshFrogs -- Andes Regionen_US
dc.subject.lcshAmphibians -- Colombiaen_US
dc.subject.lcshAmphibians -- Andes Regionen_US
dc.subject.lcshPoisonous animals -- Colombia.en_US
dc.titleA new poison frog (Dendrobates) from Andean Colombia : with notes on a lowland relative. American Museum novitates ; no. 2899en_US
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