Silverstoneia
| Silverstoneia | |
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| Silverstoneia flotator from Panama | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Colostethinae |
| Genus: |
Silverstoneia Grant et al., 2006 |
| Type species | |
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Phyllobates nubicola Dunn, 1924 |
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| Diversity | |
| 8 species (see text) | |
Silverstoneia is a genus of poison dart frogs (family Dendrobatidae) from southern Central America and northern South America, between southwestern Costa Rica and southwestern Colombia. It is named in honour of Phillip A. Silverstone, an expert on dendrobatoid frogs.
Silverstoneia are small frogs, with adult size <22 mm (0.87 in) in snout–vent length. They have brown, cryptic colouration in the dorsum. They have a pale oblique lateral stripe as well as pale ventrolateral stripe, but no pale dorsolateral stripe (except for some populations of Silverstoneia flotator in Costa Rica). Dorsal skin texture is granular posteriorly.
There are eight species of Silverstoneia:
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