Andinobates

Andinobates
Andinobates bombetes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Andinobates
Twomey, Brown, Amézquita, and Mejía-Vargas, 2011
Type species
Dendrobates bombetes
Myers and Daly, 1980
Species

14, see text.

Andinobates is a group of frogs. They are poison dart frogs. They live in Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. Scientists used to think these frogs were in Dendrobates and Ranitomeya but they changed their minds in 2011. Twomey, Brown, and their colleagues made the genus Andinobates for 12 frogs. Andinobates frogs are different from Ranitomeya frogs because their 2nd and 3rd back bones grow together into one bone. They do not have color patterns on their legs, and Ranitomeya frogs do have patterns.

Home

Andinobates live in rainforests in Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama, but Ranitomeya frogs only live in the Amazon Basin.

Species

Andinobates had 12 species from Ranitomeya. In 2013, scientists found Andinobates cassidyhornae in the Andes mountains and wrote a paper about it. In 2014, they found Andinobates geminisae in Panama. This brings the current total to 16 species:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
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 frogChocó Department of western Colombia
Andinobates bombetes (Myers and Daly, 1980)Cauca Poison FrogColombia.
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 frognorthwestern 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 frogColombia and Panama
Andinobates opisthomelas (Boulenger, 1899)Andean Poison FrogColombia
Andinobates tolimensis (Bernal-Bautista, Luna-Mora, Gallego, and Quevedo-Gil, 2007)Tolima, Colombia
Andinobates viridis (Myers and Daly, 1976)Green poison frogCordillera Occidental, Colombia
Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza and Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992)Santander poison frogColombia Santander and Cundinamarca departments

References

  1. 1 2 3 Brown, J. L.; E. Twomey; A. Amézquita; M. B. de Souza; J. P. Caldwell; S. Lötters; R. von May; P. R. Melo-Sampaio; D. Mejía-Vargas; P. E. Pérez-Peña; M. Pepper; E. H. Poelman; M. Sanchez-Rodriguez; K. Summers (2011). "A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3083: 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3083.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. ↑ Amézquita, A., et al. (2013). A new species of Andean poison frog, Andinobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae), from the northwestern Andes of Colombia. Zootaxa 3620 (1): 163-178. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.8
  4. ↑ Batista, A., et al. (2014). A new species of Andinobates (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae) from west central Panama. Zootaxa 3866 (3): 333-352. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3866.3.2