''Andinobates'' is a genus of poison dart frogs from Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.
[ It contains species formerly classified in the genus '']Dendrobates
''Dendrobates'' is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America. It once contained numerous species, but most originally placed in this genus have been split off into other genera such as '' Adelphobates'', '' Ameerega'', '' ...
'' and in 2006 transferred to the genus ''Ranitomeya
''Ranitomeya'' is a genus of dart poison frogs found in Panama and South America south to Peru and Brazil, possibly into Bolivia.
Taxonomy
In 2006 Grant et al. revised the systematics of poison dart frogs and placed many species formerly classif ...
''. In 2011 Twomey, Brown, and their colleagues erected the genus ''Andinobates'' for a group of 12 species of ''Ranitomeya''. ''Andinobates'' frogs can be distinguished from their sister taxon ''Ranitomeya'' anatomically
Anatomy () is the branch of Morphology (biology), morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things ...
in that their 2nd and 3rd vertebrae are fused. They show no limb reticulation, which is present in most species of ''Ranitomeya''.
Distribution
''Andinobates'' inhabits the rainforests of Ecuador
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, Colombia
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, and Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
,[ whereas ''Ranitomeya'' is only found in the Amazonian basin.]
Species
''Andinobates'' primarily contained 12 species formerly classified in the genus ''Ranitomeya''. In 2013 ''Andinobates cassidyhornae'', another species from the Andes of Colombia has been described.[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. ] In 2014 another new species, ''Andinobates geminisae'', was discovered in Panama.[Batista, A., et al. (2014). A new species of ''Andinobates'' (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae) from west central Panama. ''Zootaxa'' 3866 (3): 333-352. ] This brings the current total to 16 species:[
]
References
Poison dart frogs
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Central America
Amphibians of South America
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