Silverstoneia Explained

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.[1] It is named in honour of Phillip A. Silverstone, an expert on dendrobatoid frogs.[2]

Description

Silverstoneia are small frogs, with adult size <22mm in snout–vent length.[3] 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.

Species

There are eight species of Silverstoneia:[1] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2015 . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History . 11 April 2015.
  2. Web site: Silverstone-Sopkin, Philip Arthur (1939-) on JSTOR . 2023-12-29 . plants.jstor.org.
  3. 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 . 10.1206/3784.2. 2246/6450 . 84059309 .
  4. Web site: Dendrobatidae . 2015 . AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application] . Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb . 11 April 2015.

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