Another new species of Ranitomeya (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from Amazonian Colombia

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2302, 2009, Pages 48-60

  Twomey, Evan ^a   Brown, Jason L ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anura; Apaporis; Caquet Colombia; Dendrobatidae; New species; Poison frogs; Ranitomeya defleri sp. nov.; Ranitomeya ventrimaculata; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANURA; DENDROBATES QUINQUEVITTATUS; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 73849146487     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2302.1.4     Document Type: Article

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