Andinobates | |
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Andinobates bombetes | |
Scientific 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]
Andinobates inhabits the rainforests of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama, [2] whereas Ranitomeya is only found in the Amazonian basin. [1]
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 |
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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 | |
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