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Poison Frogs - Species - Epipedobates Silverstonei

Discovery	Cochran (Living Amphibians of the World, 1961)/ Myers & Daly 1979.
Type locality	"montane forest of Cordillera Azul, 1330 meters elevation, approximately 30 km airline northeast of Tingo María, Department of Huánuco, Peru. This locality lies alongside the gravel road from Tingo María to Pucallpa, about 5 km by road southwest of the road's crest at 1640 m elevation."
Holotype	The holotype: AMNH 91844 is located in the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology), New York, USA.
Etymology
Classification	Is a member of the Epipedobates trivittatus group.
Synonymy	Dutch name: rode praalkikker English name: Silverstone's Poison Frog - Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, American Museum Novitates. New York, 2674: 2. - Phobobates silverstonei--Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988, Salamandra, 24: 125-160. - Epipedobates silverstonei--Myers, 1987, Papeis Avulsos Zoologia. Universidade de São Paulo, 36: 303.
History	Cochran (Living Amphibians of the World, 1961) thought it to be P. Bicolor, Silverstone saw the frog in 1976 as a separate species (Phyllobates spec.), after which Myers and Daly described the frog as Dendrobates Silverstonei.
Physical description	Epipedobates silverstonei is a orange or red with black frog. Both colours are usually present in equal amount, where the colour is more orange toward the snout and more black toward the tail. In between the colours change in a spot like pattern. Some frogs are almost completely orange or red, but also frogs that are almost completely black. The size of the animals is about 43 mm (males are smaller then females).
Distribution	D. silverstonei is found in the blue mountains (Cordillera Azul) in eastern Peru. This is the Amazon side of the Andes at about 30 km in a straight line to the north-east of Tingo Maria, in the Huánuco department, at ca. 1330 - 1640 m elevation.
Biotope
Care and breeding	One or two pairs can be kept in a vivarium of 70 x 70 x 50cm. Epipedobates silverstonei is not shy and shows it self all day in a vivarium with a large ground surface and a lot of bromeliads. The temperature should not exceed 25°C. The females lay there > 30 eggs in hollows.
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