| Discovery |
Barbour, 1909 (Prostherapis boulengeri)
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| Type locality |
"Gorgona Island", Departamento Nariņo, Colombia.
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| Holotype |
Syntypes of Prostherapis boulengeri under numbers: MCZ 2422 (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University), USNM 52406, USNM 118232-33 (National Museum of Natural History, Washington), BM 1947.2.13.92-93 (British Museum (Natural History), London), UMMZ 48070 (University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology); BM 1947.2.13.93 designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 27: 29.
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| Etymology |
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| Classification |
E. boulengeri is a member of the E. femoralis group.
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| Synonymy |
English name: Marbled Poison Frog
- Prostherapis boulengeri Barbour, 1909, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 22: 87.
- Prostherapis femoralis Barbour, 1905, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Harvard University, 46: 101. Syntypes: MCZ 2422 (originally 22 specimens, apparently some of which sent to other museums), USNM 52406, USNM 118232-33, BM1947.2.13.92-93, UMMZ 48070; BM 1947.2.13.93 designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 27: 29. Type locality: "Gorgona Island", Departamento Nariņo, Colombia. Junior homonym of Prostherapis femoralis Boulenger, 1884 "1883".
- Prostherapis boulengeri Barbour, 1909, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 22: 87. Replacement name for Prostherapis femoralis Barbour, 1905.
- Phyllobates boulengeri--Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Harvard University, 63: 402; Parker, 1926, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, (9)17: 553; Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 27: 5.
- Colostethus boulengeri--Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 757.
- Dendrobates boulengeri--Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.
- Epipedobates boulengeri--Myers, 1987, Papeis Avulsos Zoologia. Universidade de São Paulo, 36: 303.
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| History |
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| Physical description |
E. boulengeri is a brown frog with black flanks of 15 - 21 mm. The transfer from his brown back to the black flanks is separated by a white lateral stripe. The start of the belly is pointed out with a white lateral stripe as well. The belly is yellow-black marbled with lightly pointed black cross stripes.
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| Distribution |
Ecuador and south-western Columbia where they live alongside E. bilinguis near Loreto (Amazon drainage of Bolivia, 800-1200 m elevation).
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| Biotope |
Epipedobates boulengeri is a bottom dweller living in the cloud forests of Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia 10 to 1460 meter elevation in a broad temperature range.
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| Care and breeding |
Epipedobates boulengeri is an active frog. The males can call all day, with a call comparable to a loud cricket. Two pairs can be kept in a vivarium of 40 x 40 x 40-cm at a day time temperature of 23-24°C dropping at night to about 21°C. The males can be territorial and aggressive. They usually stay in the upper regions of the vivarium. It si good to make it possible for the males to hear each other to stimulate them to calling and breeding. The frogs can be fed on fruit flies, crickets and springtails.
Epipedobates boulengeri is an easy to breed species. Breeding can be stimulated by spaying water daily The eggs are laid in empty plastic film boxes or on leaves. Epipedobates boulengeri are excellent parents. Should you choose to raise the tadpoles separately, this can be done on a diet of fish flakes and algae. Froglets can be fed on springtails and small crickets.
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| Foto's |
The foto published here with permission from © Jan Verkade, from his CD Herpetofauna Ecuador
The foto's published here with the kind permission of © Mick Bajcar
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