Excidobates

Excidobates
Excidobates mysteriosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Genus: Excidobates
Twomey and Brown, 2008
Type species
Dendrobates mysteriosus
Myers, 1982
Species

3 species (see text)

Excidobates is a group of frogs. These frogs are poison dart frogs. They live in Peru and Ecuador in places where water goes into the Marañón River. Scientists used to put these frogs in Dendrobates. The frogs in this group all have light, oval-shaped spots on the bottoms of their back legs.

Species

These species are in the genus:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Excidobates captivus (Myers, 1982)Santiago poison frogPeru and Ecuador
Excidobates condor Almendáriz, Ron, and Brito M., 2012Cóndor poison frogEcuador
Excidobates mysteriosus (Myers, 1982)Marañón poison frogPeru

References

  1. ↑ Twomey, E.; Brown, J. L. (2008). "Spotted poison frogs: rediscovery of a lost species and a new genus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from northwestern Peru". Herpetologica. 64: 121–137. doi:10.1655/07-009.1. S2CID 55898618.
  2. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Excitobates Twomey and Brown, 2008". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Excidobates Archived 2016-10-30 at the Wayback Machine Poison frogs, Dendrobates.org
  4. ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2017.