Dendrobates auratus

Girard, 1855

Coloration: Color.
Size: S/V 25-40 mm
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Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panamá, and Colombia.

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Status: Threatened.

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Martínez, V. 1984 Investigación preliminar de los anfibios (Salientia) de Quebrada de Arena y áreas adyacentes: listado anotado. Natura (Panamá) 4:30-33.
Myers, C.W. 1982 Spotted poison frogs: descriptions of three new Dendrobates from Western Amazonia and resurection of a lost species from "Chiriqui". Amer. Mus. Novitates. No. 2721, 23 pp.
Myers, C.W., & Daly, J.W. 1983 Dart-Poison Frogs. Sci. Amer. 248(2): 120-33.
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Savage, J.M. 1986 An Introduction to the Herpetofauna of Costa Rica. Soc. Stud. Amphib. Rept. Contrib. Herpetol. No. 3, 207 pp.
Silverstone, P.A. 1975 A revision of the of the poison-arrow frogs of the genus Dendrobates. Wagler. Nat. His. Mus. Los Angeles Co., Sci. Bull. 21:1-55.
Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.
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Phyllobates auratus Girard, 1855, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 226. Holotype: USNM 10307. Type locality: Taboga Island in the Bay of Panama.
Dendrobates latimaculatus Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 125. Holotype: BM 52.12.11.8, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 21: 40. Type locality: "Isthmus of Darien [Panama]". Tentative synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 635. Synonymy by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 21: 11, 40.
Hylaplesia aurata--Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 49.
Dendrobates tinctorius var. auratus--Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 261.
Dendrobates trivittatus auratus--Peters, 1874 "1873", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 618.
Dendrobates amoenus Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 627. Types: formerly in Zoologisches Museum Königsberg (Germany); now presumably lost or destroyed. According to Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88, the holotype is NHMW 1904.111.95. Type locality: "Costa Rica". Synonymy by Dunn, 1941, Copeia, 1941: 88; Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 759-760.
Dendrobates auratus--Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 393; Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 107.
Dendrobates tinctorius auratus--Laurent, 1942, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 18(43): 12.