Silverstoneia
genus of amphibians
Silverstoneia is a group of frogs that live in southern Central America and northern South America, between Costa Rica and Colombia. They are one group of frogs that are called poison dart frogs in English.[2] Scientists named the group for frog expert Phillip A. Silverstone.[3]
| Silverstoneia | |
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| Silverstoneia flotator from Panama | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Genus: | Silverstoneia Grant et al., 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Silverstoneia nubicola Dunn, 1924
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| Diversity | |
| 8 species (see text) | |
Description
changeSilverstoneia are small frogs. The adult frogs are <22 mm (0.87 in) long from nose to rear end.[4] They have brown skin on their backs that helps them hide. They have a light-colored stripe on each side of their bodies and other stripes closer tot eh belly. The skin of the frogs' backs is rough near the rear end.[1]
Species
changeThere are eight species of frog in Silverstoneia:[2][5]
- Silverstoneia dalyi Grant and Myers, 2013
- Silverstoneia erasmios (Rivero and Serna, 2000)
- Silverstoneia flotator (Dunn, 1931)
- Silverstoneia gutturalis Grant and Myers, 2013
- Silverstoneia minima Grant and Myers, 2013
- Silverstoneia minutissima Grant and Myers, 2013
- Silverstoneia nubicola (Dunn, 1924)
- Silverstoneia punctiventris Grant and Myers, 2013
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grant, T.; Frost, D. R.; Caldwell, J. P.; Gagliardo, R.; Haddad, C. F. B.; Kok, P. J. R.; Means, D. B.; Noonan, B. P.; Schargel, W. E. & Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 82263880.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ↑ "Silverstone-Sopkin, Philip Arthur (1939-) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
- ↑ Grant, T.; Myers, C. W. (2013). "Review of the frog genus Silverstoneia, with descriptions of five new species from the Colombian Chocó (Dendrobatidae: Colostethinae)". American Museum Novitates (3784): 1–58. doi:10.1206/3784.2. hdl:2246/6450. S2CID 84059309.
- ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.