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On the naming of Allobates niputidea, a species of frog found in Colombia:

Etymology.—The specific epithet is a noun in apposition and is the name commonly applied by Colombian herpetologists to this and other small, brown frogs of unknown identity.

(Grant, T., Acosta, A., & Rada, M. (2007). A Name for the Species of Allobates (Anura: Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae) from the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.)

niputidea, incidentally, is Spanish for nofuckinclue