Colostethus

Colostethus
Colostethus pratti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Colostethus
Cope, 1866
Diversity
12 species (see text)
Synonyms
  • Prostherapis Cope, 1868

Colostethus is a group of poison dart frogs. They live in Central and South America, from Panama to Colombia, to Ecuador, to northern Peru. People call them rocket frogs in English, but frogs not in Colostethus have this name too.

Groups

In 2006, scientists said they had put too many species in Colostethus, 138. They looked at the genuses again and learned that many of these frogs were not alike enough to be in the same genus. They put some of these frogs in Aromobatidae (e..g., Anomaloglossus) and others to Hyloxalus and Silverstoneia. Some scientists think that some of the frogs in Colostethus should be in Ameerega instead.

Bodies

The skin of the frog's back is brown in color. There are bumps near the rear end. The frogs have light colored stripes. Adult male frogs' third front toes are big.

Species

There are 12 species in this genus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Colostethus Cope, 1866". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 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.

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