Silverstoneia
Genus of amphibians
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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  | |
| 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) | |
Description
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
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