''Ameerega ingeri'', sometimes known as the Niceforo's poison frog, Brother Niceforo's poison frog, or Inger's poison frog, is a species of frog in the family

Dendrobatidae Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the Family (biology), family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America. T ...

. It is endemic to the

Colombian Amazon Amazonía region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km², 35% of Colombia's total territory. The region is mostly covered by ...

. It is known with certainty only from its type locality in the

Caquetá Department Caquetá Department () is a department of Colombia. Located in the Amazonas region, Caquetá borders with the departments of Cauca and Huila to the west, the department of Meta to the north, the department of Guaviare to the northeast, the d ...

. Records from the Putumayo Department ascribed to this species likely refer to '' Ameerega bilinguis'', although other sources continue to include Putumayo in the range of ''Ameerega ingeri''.

Etymology

The

specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...

''ingeri'' honors

Robert F. Inger Robert Frederick Inger (September 10, 1920 – April 12, 2019) was an American herpetologist. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous books and publications about herpetology. He was also the curator for amphibians and reptiles at the Field Mus ...

, an American zoologist from the

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. "Niceforo" in the common name refers to who collected the

type series In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the ...

Description

The type series consists of four specimens, the largest of which (the holotype) is at in snout–vent length. The body is elongate. The eyes are large and prominent. The tympanum is small but distinct. The fingers are long and they relatively small discs and slight lateral fringes; no webbing is present. The toes are long and have slight basal webbing. Skin is dorsally coarsely granular. dorsum in preserved specimens is slate black, but the top of head is little lighter and there are traces of a gray chevron mark in front of eyes. The venter is slate black, with slight indications of a coarse, light reticulation on belly.

Habitat and conservation

''Ameerega ingeri'' occurs in tropical rainforest at

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, or if more broadly defined, at . It is threatened by habitat loss—the area of the type locality is already deforested.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1348923 ingeri Amphibians of Colombia Endemic fauna of Colombia Amphibians described in 1970 Taxa named by Doris Mable Cochran Taxonomy articles created by Polbot