Andinobates

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Andinobates
Andinobates bombetes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Dendrobatinae
Genus: Andinobates
Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas, 2011[1]
Type species
Dendrobates bombetes

Myers and Daly, 1980
Species

14, see text.

Andinobates is a genus of poison dart frogs from Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.[2] It contains species formerly classified in the genus Dendrobates and in 2006 transferred to the genus Ranitomeya. In 2011 Twomey, Brown, and their colleagues erected the genus Andinobates for a group of 12 species of Ranitomeya. Andinobates frogs can be distinguished from their sister taxon Ranitomeya anatomically in that their 2nd and 3rd vertebrae are fused. They show no limb reticulation, which is present in most species of Ranitomeya.[1]

Distribution

Andinobates inhabits the rainforests of

Amazonian basin.[1]

Species

Andinobates primarily contained 12 species formerly classified in the genus Ranitomeya. In 2013 Andinobates cassidyhornae, another species from the Andes of Colombia has been described.[3] In 2014 another new species, Andinobates geminisae, was discovered in Panama.[4] This brings the current total to 16 species:[2]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Andinobates abditus (Myers and Daly, 1976) Collins' poison frog. Ecuador
Andinobates altobueyensis (Silverstone, 1975) Alto de Buey poison frog, golden poison-arrow frog, and golden poison frog Chocó Department of western Colombia
Andinobates bombetes
(Myers and Daly, 1980)
Cauca Poison Frog Colombia.
Andinobates cassidyhornae (Amézquita et al., 2013) Colombia
Andinobates claudiae (Jungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000) Panama.
Andinobates daleswansoni (Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez, and Quevedo-Gil, 2006) Caldas, Colombia
Andinobates dorisswansonae (Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez, and Quevedo-Gil, 2006) Tolima, Colombia
Andinobates fulguritus
(Silverstone, 1975)
yellow-bellied poison frog, yellow-bellied poison-arrow frog, or yellowbelly poison frog northwestern Colombia (Chocó Department and the westernmost Antioquia and Risaralda) and east-central Panama
Andinobates geminisae
(Batista et al., 2014)
Panama
Andinobates minutus
(Shreve, 1935)
blue-bellied poison frog or bluebelly poison frog Colombia and Panama
Andinobates opisthomelas
(Boulenger, 1899)
Andean Poison Frog Colombia
Andinobates tolimensis (Bernal-Bautista, Luna-Mora, Gallego, and Quevedo-Gil, 2007) Tolima, Colombia
Andinobates viridis (Myers and Daly, 1976) Green poison frog Cordillera Occidental, Colombia
Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza and Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992) Santander poison frog Colombia Santander and Cundinamarca departments

References

  1. ^ (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  2. ^ a b c Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Andinobates Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas, 2011". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 October 2016.