2 new species

Ric Sanchez · #1 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 06:31 AM

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01823p024f.pdf

red-headed fantasticus has a new name.

-Evan

markbudde · #2 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 07:19 AM

Congrats! It bet it feels great to have your work accepted. What are the species names?

Corpus Callosum · #3 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 08:30 AM

So which ones are the R. benedicta and which are R. summersi (assuming those keywords are the new species) ?

tkromer · #4 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 11:48 AM

Yeah I didn't see where it says which is which either. Congrats on your work though

Ric Sanchez · #5 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 05:52 PM

Ranitomeya benedicta is the 'red-headed fantastica', which popped up on this forum once around 2005. Sweetest frog ever, I will try to get some pictures up on dendrobates.org when I can. There are at least two morphs of this frog, one of them has a bright red head with solid blue legs and a black dorsum. Ranitomeya summersi is the Sauce fantastica, otherwise known as the yellow banded morph. Feel free to email myself or Jason Brown for the pdf.

-Evan

Corpus Callosum · #6 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 06:09 PM

Found this picture of benedicta on zootaxa's page

Mywebbedtoes · #7 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 07:23 PM

You weren't kiding about the sweetest frog ever!

iljjlm · #8 (**permalink**) 07-16-2008, 11:08 PM

Are these currently in the hobby? I do not mean, "oh, where can I get those?" question, but I would like to know if this is something that people are breeding now and need to change the names of their frogs. I have never seen the R. benedicta for sale or pictures, but not sure about the R. summersi. Sure look amazing though.
-Dave

Brian Ferriera · #9 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by iljjlm

Are these currently in the hobby? I do not mean, "oh, where can I get those?" question, but I would like to know if this is something that people are breeding now and need to change the names of their frogs. I have never seen the R. benedicta for sale or pictures, but not sure about the R. summersi. Sure look amazing though.
-Dave

If I am understanding this right Ranitomeya summersi where what we been calling yellow fant's Benedicta has yet to be brought in legally.
Brian

Ric Sanchez · #10 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Ferriera

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Originally Posted by iljjlm

Are these currently in the hobby? I do not mean, "oh, where can I get those?" question, but I would like to know if this is something that people are breeding now and need to change the names of their frogs. I have never seen the R. benedicta for sale or pictures, but not sure about the R. summersi. Sure look amazing though.
-Dave

If I am understanding this right Ranitomeya summersi where what we been calling yellow fant's Benedicta has yet to be brought in legally.
Brian

Yes, that is correct. Although last I heard, the germans had found R. benedicta so it probably won't be long until they show up at Hamm. Also, this paper will unfortunately give them some localities to work with, so I would be surprised if they are not all over Europe within a year. Poor Mark is probably about to be inundated with emails...

R. summersi has been around for a while, and they are pretty distinctive, so people probably won't have any trouble figuring out which species they have. Our paper should be really helpful in this regard, we included several plates in the appendix with a ton of pictures of frogs from different localities.

-Evan