Andinobates

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Andinobates
Ranitomeya bombetes.jpg
Andinobates bombetes
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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]

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Distribution

Andinobates inhabits the rainforests of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama, [2] whereas Ranitomeya is only found in the 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]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Andinobates abditus (Myers and Daly, 1976)Collins' poison frog.Ecuador
Ranitomeya altobueyensis.jpg Andinobates altobueyensis (Silverstone, 1975)Alto de Buey poison frog, golden poison-arrow frog, and golden poison frogChocó Department of western Colombia
Ranitomeya bombetes.jpg Andinobates bombetes (Myers and Daly, 1980)Cauca Poison FrogColombia.
Andinobates cassidyhornae 9700989.png Andinobates cassidyhornae (Amézquita et al., 2013)Colombia
Andinobates claudiae.jpg Andinobates claudiae (Jungfer, Lötters, and Jörgens, 2000)Panama.
Andinobates daleswansoni (Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez, and Quevedo-Gil, 2006)Caldas, Colombia
Ranitomeya dorisswansonae02.jpg 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 frognorthwestern Colombia (Chocó Department and the westernmost Antioquia and Risaralda) and east-central Panama
Andinobates geminisae (16963967197).jpg Andinobates geminisae (Batista et al., 2014)Panama
Andinobates minutus.jpg Andinobates minutus (Shreve, 1935)blue-bellied poison frog or bluebelly poison frogColombia and Panama
Ranitomeya opisthomelas.jpg Andinobates opisthomelas (Boulenger, 1899)Andean Poison FrogColombia
Ranitomeya tolimense04.jpg Andinobates tolimensis (Bernal-Bautista, Luna-Mora, Gallego, and Quevedo-Gil, 2007)Tolima, Colombia
Andinobates viridis (Myers and Daly, 1976)Green poison frogCordillera Occidental, Colombia
Ranitomeya virolinensis.jpg Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza and Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992)Santander poison frogColombia Santander and Cundinamarca departments

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References

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