Epipedobates

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Epipedobates
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Epipedobates tricolor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Colostethinae
Genus: Epipedobates
Myers, 1987
Type species
Prostherapis tricolor
Boulenger, 1899
Diversity
8 species (see text)

Epipedobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to northern South America (Colombia and Ecuador) west of the Andes, including the western slopes. Common name phantasmal poison frogs has been suggested for the genus. [1]

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Taxonomy

Epipedobates was erected in 1987 in an attempt to split dendrobatids into monophyletic genera, accommodating species that had until then been placed in Phyllobates . In the major revision of poison dart frogs in 2006, most of the species formerly placed in Epipedobates were then transferred to Ameerega , leaving behind just five species. [2] The species count of Epipedobates had increased to eight by early 2025. [3]

Description

Dorsal colouration is cryptic, brown. A pale oblique lateral stripe is present. Dorsal skin is smooth or with irregularly scattered granules or tubercles, most distinct and prevalent posteriorly. In adult males, third finger is swollen. [2]

Species

There are seven valid described species, listed below. [4] Genetic evidence suggests that there is an eighth valid species that is undescribed as of 2024. [5]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Epipedobates narinensis (Mueses-Cisneros, Cepeda-Quilindo, and Moreno-Quintero, 2008) [6] Colombia
Epipedobates currulao [3] Southwestern Colombia
Epipedobates boulengeri (Barbour, 1909) [7] [8] marbled poison frog or marbled poison-arrow frogColombia (Cauca, Nariño, Valle del Cauca Departments, including Gorgona Island) and northwestern Ecuador
Epipedobates darwinwallacei (11750144123).jpg Epipedobates espinosai (Funkhouser, 1956) [9] Ecuador
Epipedobates machalilla (Coloma, 1995) [10] West Ecuador
Epipedobates tricolor1.jpg Epipedobates tricolor (Boulenger, 1899) [11] Phantasmal poison frogEcuador
SDC11457 - Epipedobates anthonyi.JPG Epipedobates anthonyi (Noble, 1921) [12] Anthony's poison arrow frogEcuador and Peru.

References

  1. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2024). "Epipedobates Myers, 1987". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 Grant, T.; Frost, D. R.; Caldwell, J. P.; Gagliardo, R.; Haddad, C. F. B.; Kok, P. J. R.; Means, D. B.; Noonan, B. P.; Schargel, W. E. & Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2. S2CID   82263880. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  3. 1 2 Betancourth-Cundar, Mileidy; Ríos-Orjuela, Juan Camilo; Crawford, Andrew J.; Cannatella, David C.; Tarvin, Rebecca D. (2025-02-06). "Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobates currulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests". ZooKeys. 1226: 139–170. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.123803 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   11826230 . PMID   39959861.
  4. ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  5. ↑ López-Hervas, Karem; Santos, Juan C.; Ron, Santiago R.; Betancourth-Cundar, Mileidy; Cannatella, David C.; Tarvin, Rebecca D. (2024-06-01). "Deep divergences among inconspicuously colored clades of Epipedobates poison frogs". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 195: 108065. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108065. ISSN   1055-7903.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  6. ↑ Mueses-Cisneros, Jonh Jairo; Cepeda-Quilindo, Belisario; Moreno-Quintero, Viviana (2008). "Una nueva especie de Epipedobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) del suroccidente de Colombia". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 48 (1). doi: 10.1590/s0031-10492008000100001 . ISSN   0031-1049.
  7. ↑ Barbour, Thomas (1909). "Corrections regarding the names of two recently described Amphibia Salientia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 22: 89.
  8. ↑ Barbour, Thomas (1905). "The Vertebrata of Gorgona Island, Colombia: Reptilia; Amphibia". Bulletin of the Museum at Harvard College. 46 (5): 98–102.
  9. ↑ Funkhouser, John W. (17 September 1956). "New frogs from Ecuador and southwestern Colombia". Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society. 41 (9): 73–80. doi: 10.5962/p.190356 . S2CID   90986498 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  10. ↑ Coloma, Luis A. (13 September 1995). "Ecuadorian frogs of the genus Colostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)". University of Kansas Natural History Museum. 87: 1–72 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  11. ↑ Boulenger, G.A. (December 1899). "LII—Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Mr. P. O. Simons in the Andes of Ecuador". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (24): 454–457. doi:10.1080/00222939908678229. ISSN   0374-5481.
  12. ↑ Noble, Gladwyn Kingsley (30 Dec 1921). "Five new species of Salientia from South America". American Museum Novitates (29): 1–7. hdl:2246/4615.
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