Ranitomeya vanzolinii, Myers, 1982

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 : 61

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).