Ranitomeya vanzolinii Myers 1982

Ranitomeya vanzolinii species group Figs. 3, 4, 9, 23 – 29 Tables 1, 4 – 6 A monophyletic assemblage of six species: Ranitomeya vanzolinii Myers 1982; R. sirensis Aichinger 1991 with its junior synonyms R. biolat Morales 1992 and R. lamasi Morales 1992; R. imitator Schulte 1986 with its junior synonyms R. imitator intermedius Schulte 1999 and R. imitator yurimaguensis Schulte 1999; R. flavovittata Schulte 1999; R. yavaricola Perez-Peña, Chavez, Twomey & Brown 2010 and R. cyanovittata Perez-Peña, Chavez, Twomey & Brown 2010. Definition and diagnosis. Medium to large adult SVL (17 – 21 mm); black dorsum; highly variable morphology; LTRF 2(2)/3(1), oral disc emarginated; large intestine unpigmented; larvae whitish to gray; eggs cream; territoriality present in males; promiscuous (known in R. sirensis) or monogamous mating system (known in R. vanzolinii and R. imitator), male parental care (observed in R. sirensis) or biparental (observed in R. vanzolinii and R. imitator); females produce between 2 – 4 eggs per mating. The advertisement call of species in this group consists of a loud trill, highly tonal, with notes 0.4 – 1.1 sec in length, repeated at 2 – 14 notes per minute (Fig. 28).
Published as part of Brown, Jason L., Twomey, Evan, Amézquita, Adolfo, Souza, Moisés Barbosa De, Caldwell, Jana- Lee P., Lötters, Stefan, May, Rudolf Von, Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Roberto, Mejía-Vargas, Daniel, Perez-Peña, Pedro, Pepper, Mark, Poelman, Erik H., Sanchez-Rodriguez, Manuel & Summers, Kyle, 2011, A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) 3083, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3083 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3083.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244214
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