Poison Frogs - Species - Epipedobates Parvalus


Discovery Boulenger, 1882, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the Collection of the British Museum. Ed. 2. Taylor and Francis, London.: 145.
Type locality "Sarayacu", Pastaza, Ecuador and "Canelos", Pastaza, Ecuador; restricted to Sarayacu, Pastaza, Ecuador, by lectotype designation.
Holotype Syntypes: BM 1947.2.30.89-90; BM 1947.2.30.89 (British Museum) designated lectotype by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 27: 36.
Etymology
Classification Is a member of the Epipedobates pictus group.
Synonymy English name: Ruby Poison Frog (Epipedobates parvalus) / Valle Santiago Rocket Frog (Colostethus festae)
- Dendrobates parvulus Boulenger, 1882
- Prostherapis festae Peracca, 1904, Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Università di Torino, 19(475): 16. Syntypes: MZUT (Museo di Zoologia.--Instituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata Universitá di Torino) An87 (2 specimens), according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, Cat. 10: 84. Type locality: "Valle Santiago", eastern Ecuador. Synonym by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 57.
- Phyllobates festae--Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Harvard University, 63: 401.
- Colostethus festae--Edwards, 1971, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 84: 148.
- Phyllobates parvulus--Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Cty., 21: 11.
- Dendrobates parvulus--Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 161: 332.
- Epipedobates parvulus--Myers, 1987, Papeis Avulsos Zoologia. Universidade de São Paulo, 36: 303.
History
Physical description Very similar to E. bilinguis. Juvenile parvalus are bright red and blue (like their parents)
Distribution Upper Amazon Basin in southern Ecuador and northern Peru; southern part of the Eastern Andes on the lower eastern slopes in Amazonia, Colombia, 300-1000 m elevation.
Biotope Found at the foot of hills near small streams.
Care and breeding They can be kept at a temperature of 23-25°C.
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