Silverstoneia
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| Silverstoneia | |
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| Silverstoneia flotator from Panama | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Colostethinae |
| Genus: | Silverstoneia Grant et al., 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Silverstoneia nubicola Dunn, 1924 | |
| Diversity | |
| 8 species (see text) | |
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]