Allobates
| Allobates | |
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| Brilliant-thighed poison frog (Allobates femoralis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Allobatinae |
| Genus: | Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 |
| Species | |
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48, see text | |
Allobates is a genus of frogs in the Aromobatidae family.[1] They are native to the Central and South Americas, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Brazil, with one species on Martinique.[1][2]
Description and ecology
Allobates are mostly small frogs. Dorsal colouration is cryptic, with the exception of the Allobates femoralis group that has bright colours. They are mostly terrestrial frogs found in the leaf litter of tropical rain forests. Most species deposit eggs in the leaf litter; tadpoles are transported to the water on the backs of the parents. Allobates nidicola and Allobates chalcopis, however, have endotrophic tadpoles that develop into froglets in the nest, without entering water.[2]
Taxonomy
Allobates includes 48 species:[1]
- Allobates alessandroi (Grant and Rodriguez, 2001)
- Allobates algorei Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2009
- Allobates amissibilis Kok, Hölting, and Ernst, 2013[3]
- Allobates bromelicola (Test, 1956)
- Allobates brunneus (Cope, 1887)
- Allobates caeruleodactylus (Lima and Caldwell, 2001)
- Allobates caribe (Barrio-Amorós, Rivas-Fuenmayor, and Kaiser, 2006)
- Allobates cepedai (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates chalcopis (Kaiser, Coloma, and Gray, 1994)
- Allobates conspicuus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates crombiei (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates femoralis (Boulenger, 1884)
- Allobates flaviventris Melo-Sampaio, Souza, and Peloso, 2013
- Allobates fratisenescus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates fuscellus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates gasconi (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates goianus (Bokermann, 1975)
- Allobates granti (Kok, MacCulloch, Gaucher, Poelman, Bourne, Lathrop, and Lenglet, 2006)
- Allobates grillisimilis Simões, Sturaro, Peloso, and Lima, 2013[4]
- Allobates hodli Simões, Lima, and Farias, 2010
- Allobates humilis (Rivero, 1980)
- Allobates ignotus Anganoy-Criollo, 2012
- Allobates insperatus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates juanii (Morales, 1994)
- Allobates kingsburyi (Boulenger, 1918)
- Allobates mandelorum (Schmidt, 1932)
- Allobates marchesianus (Melin, 1941)
- Allobates masniger (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates mcdiarmidi (Reynolds and Foster, 1992)
- Allobates melanolaemus (Grant and Rodriguez, 2001)
- Allobates myersi (Pyburn, 1981)
- Allobates nidicola (Caldwell and Lima, 2003)
- Allobates niputidea Grant, Acosta-Galvis, and Rada, 2007
- Allobates olfersioides (Lutz, 1925)
- Allobates ornatus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates paleovarzensis Lima, Caldwell, Biavati, and Montanarin, 2010
- Allobates picachos (Ardila-Robayo, Acosta-Galvis, and Coloma, 2000)
- Allobates pittieri (La Marca, Manzanilla, and Mijares-Urrutia, 2004)
- Allobates ranoides (Boulenger, 1918)
- Allobates sanmartini (Rivero, Langone, and Prigioni, 1986)
- Allobates subfolionidificans (Lima, Sanchez, and Souza, 2007)
- Allobates sumtuosus (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates talamancae (Cope, 1875)
- Allobates trilineatus (Boulenger, 1884)
- Allobates undulatus (Myers and Donnelly, 2001)
- Allobates vanzolinius (Morales, 2002)
- Allobates wayuu (Acosta-Galvis, Cuentas, and Coloma, 1999)
- Allobates zaparo (Silverstone, 1976)
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (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.
- 1 2 Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 487–488.
- ↑ Philippe J. R. Kok, Monique Hölting, Raffael Ernst. 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, 2013; DOI: 10.1007/s13127-013-0144-4
- ↑ Simões, P.; Sturaro, M.; Peloso, P.; Lima, A. (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): 251–273. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3609.3.1.
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