Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865

Taucce, Pedro P. G., Costa-Campos, Carlos Eduardo, Carvalho, Thiago R. & Michalski, Fernanda, 2022, Anurans (Amphibia: Anura) of the Brazilian state of Amapá, eastern Amazonia: species diversity and knowledge gaps, European Journal of Taxonomy 836, pp. 96-130 : 108

Family Dendrobatidae Cope, 1865

Ranitomeya populations in Amapá have been registered with two different names, Ranitomeya amazonica (Schulte, 1999) ( Lima 2018) and Ranitomeya ventrimaculata ( Shreve, 1935) ( Lima 2006a, 2006b; Queiroz et al. 2011). However, R. amazonica is a species known for decades prior to its description, and has been erroneously identified as several other species, including R. ventrimaculata (for a complete taxonomic history see Brown et al. 2011). Currently, R. ventrimaculata is restricted to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and the western portion of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, and until recently the populations of Ranitomeya from eastern Amazonia were assigned to R. amazonica ( Brown et al. 2011) . Nevertheless, Muell et al. (2022) recovered R. amazonica nested within R. variabilis (Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988) and specifically populations from eastern Amazonia were recovered as R. variabilis . Thus, we agree with them and consider Amapá records to be R. variabilis .