Poison Frogs - Species - Epipedobates Braccatus

Discovery	Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 239-288.
Type locality	São Vicente, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Holotype	The syntypes: NHMW 3818.1-2; NHMW 3818.1 are located in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. Designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1976, Science Bulletin. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 27: 42.
Etymology
Classification
Synonymy	- Dendrobates braccatus Cope, 1887, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 24: 44-60 [53-54]. Holotype: ANSP 13414. Type locality: "at or near .... Chupada [=Chapada dos Guimarães], thirty miles north-east of Cuyabá, and near the headwaters of the Xingu, an important tributary of the Amazon", Mato Grosso, Brazil. Synonymy by Haddad and Martins, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 282-295. Junior homonym of Dendrobates braccatus Steindachner, 1864. - Dendrobates pictus braccatus--B. Lutz, 1952, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz., 50: 601. - Epipedobates braccatus--Martins and Sazima, 1989, Ciência Hoje, 9(53): 34-38 [34].
History
Physical description
Distribution	Known only from the type locality (Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso), from two nearby localities (Barra do Bugres and Cáceres, Mato Grosso), from Aquidauana, Mato Gross do Sul, and from Santa Rito do Araguaia, Goias, Brazil.
Biotope
Care and breeding	They can be kept at a temperature of 25-27°C.
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