Allobates

Allobates
Brilliant-thighed poison frog (Allobates femoralis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Aromobatidae
Subfamily: Allobatinae
Genus: Allobates
Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988
Species

58, see text

Allobates is a group of frogs in the family Aromobatidae. They live in Central and South America. They live as far north as Nicaragua to as far south as Bolivia and Brazil. One frog in this group lives on Martinique.

Body

Frogs in Allobates are small in size. The skin of their backs can either have color that makes them hard to see or bright color. For example, Allobates femoralis has bright color. Most of these frogs live on the ground in tropical rain forests. They live on the dead leaves on the ground. Most of the female frogs put their eggs on the dead leaves on the ground. After the eggs hatch, the adult frogs carry the tadpoles to water. This is true for all but two species in this group.

Species

Allobates zaparo

There are 58 species in the group Allobates:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Frost DR (2014). "Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 Vitt LJ, Caldwell JP (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 487–488. ISBN 978-0-12-386919-7.
  3. ↑ Souza JR, Ferrão M, Hanken J, Lima AP (2020-11-04). "Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call". PeerJ. 8 e9979. doi:10.7717/peerj.9979. PMC 7648453. PMID 33194373.
  4. ↑ Kok PJ, Hölting M, Ernst R (December 2013). "A third microendemic to the Iwokrama Mountains of central Guyana: a new "cryptic" species of Allobates Zimmerman and Zimmerman, 1988 (Anura: Aromobatidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 13 (4): 621–38. Bibcode:2013ODivE..13..621K. doi:10.1007/s13127-013-0144-4. S2CID 18493157.
  5. ↑ Simões PI, Sturaro MJ, Peloso PL, Lima AP (January 2013). "A new diminutive species of Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the northwestern Rio Madeira-Rio Tapajós interfluve, Amazonas, Brazil". Zootaxa. 3609 (3): 251–73. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.1. PMID 24699589.

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