Silverstoneia is a genus of poison dart frogs (family Dendrobatidae) from southern Central America and northern South America, between southwestern Costa Rica and southwestern Colombia.[2] It is named in honour of Phillip A. Silverstone, an expert on dendrobatoid frogs.[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 |
| Subfamily: | Colostethinae |
| Genus: | Silverstoneia Grant et al., 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Phyllobates nubicola Dunn, 1924
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| Diversity | |
| 8 species (see text) | |
Description edit
Silverstoneia are small frogs, with adult size <22 mm (0.87 in) in snout–vent length.[4] They have brown, cryptic colouration in the dorsum. They have a pale oblique lateral stripe as well as pale ventrolateral stripe, but no pale dorsolateral stripe (except for some populations of Silverstoneia flotator in Costa Rica). Dorsal skin texture is granular posteriorly.[1]
Species edit
There are eight species of 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 edit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.