Ranitomeya reticulata, Boulenger, 1884

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, Zootaxa 3083 (1), pp. 1-120 : 48

Ranitomeya reticulata species group

Figs. 3, 4, 9, 15 – 18

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A monophyletic assemblage of six species: Ranitomeya reticulata Boulenger 1884 “1883” with its junior synonym R. ignea Melin 1941 ; R. fantastica Boulenger, 1884 “1883”; R. ventrimaculata Shreve 1935 ; R. uakarii Brown, Schulte & Summers 2006 ; R. summersi Brown, Twomey, Pepper & Sanchez-Rodriguez 2008 and R. benedicta Brown, Twomey, Pepper, & Sanchez-Rodriguez 2008 .

Definition and diagnosis. Medium to large adult SVL (17 – 21 mm); black dorsum; typically orange to red dorsal patterning; LTRF 2 (2)/3, oral disc emarginate; large intestine entirely pigmented; eggs dark; promiscuous mating system, male parental care; grayish tadpoles and embryos, females produce between 2 – 5 eggs per mating. Vocalizations consist of a series of very short buzz-like notes (0.1 – 0.5 sec in length) given in rapid succession (104 – 200 notes per minute) ( Fig. 18) .