Epipedobates
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| Epipedobates tricolor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dendrobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Colostethinae |
| Genus: | Epipedobates Myers, 1987 |
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About 30 currently described species, see text. |
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Epipedobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to northern South America. Recently, many of the species were placed in the revived genus, Ameerega.[1]
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[edit] Taxonomy
Epipedobates is a large genus, comprising about thirty described species.
[edit] Species
Selected species:
- Epipedobates anthonyi - (Noble, 1921)
- Epipedobates azureiventris
- Epipedobates boulengeri - (Barbour, 1909)
- Epipedobates braccatus - (Steindachner, 1864)
- Epipedobates espinosai - (Funkhouser, 1956)
- Epipedobates femoralis
- Epipedobates hahneli - (Boulenger, 1884)
- Epipedobates maculatus - (Peters, 1873)
- Epipedobates myersi - (Pyburn, 1981)
- Epipedobates narinensis
- Epipedobates rufulus - (Gorzula, 1990)
- Epipedobates tricolor - (Boulenger, 1899)
- Epipedobates zaparo
[edit] Species formerly in Epipedobates
These 17 species have been moved to the genus Ameerega :
- Ameerega andina
- Ameerega bassleri
- Ameerega bilinguis
- Ameerega cainarachi
- Ameerega erythromos
- Ameerega flavopicta
- Ameerega hahneli
- Ameerega ingeri
- Ameerega macero
- Ameerega petersi
- Ameerega picta
- Ameerega planipaleae
- Ameerega pongoensis
- Ameerega pulchripecta
- Ameerega silverstonei
- Ameerega smaragdina
- Ameerega trivittata
[edit] References
- ^ 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., and 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
- "Amphibian Species of the World - Epipedobates Myers, 1987". http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/references.php?id=3231. Retrieved 2006-07-21.
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