Ameerega

Ameerega
Ameerega trivittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dendrobatidae
Subfamily: Colostethinae
Genus: Ameerega
Bauer, 1986
Diversity
32 species (see text)

Ameerega is a genus of poison dart frogs in the family Dendrobatidae.[1][2] They are found in central South America north to Panama.[1] It contains many former species of the genus Epipedobates.[3]

Species

There are 32 species:[1]

  • Ameerega altamazonica Twomey and Brown, 2008
  • Ameerega andina (Myers and Burrowes, 1987)
  • Ameerega bassleri (Melin, 1941)
  • Ameerega berohoka Vaz-Silva and Maciel, 2011[4]
  • Ameerega bilinguis (Jungfer, 1989)
  • Ameerega boehmei Lötters, Schmitz, Reichle, Rödder, and Quennet, 2009
  • Ameerega boliviana (Boulenger, 1902)
  • Ameerega braccata (Steindachner, 1864)
  • Ameerega cainarachi (Schulte, 1989)
  • Ameerega erythromos (Vigle and Miyata, 1980)
  • Ameerega flavopicta (Lutz, 1925)
  • Ameerega hahneli (Boulenger, 1884)
  • Ameerega ignipedis Brown and Twomey, 2009
  • Ameerega ingeri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
  • Ameerega labialis (Cope, 1874)
  • Ameerega macero (Rodriguez and Myers, 1993)
  • Ameerega maculata (Peters, 1873)
  • Ameerega parvula (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Ameerega pepperi Brown and Twomey, 2009
  • Ameerega peruviridis Bauer, 1986
  • Ameerega petersi (Silverstone, 1976)
  • Ameerega picta (Bibron, 1838)
  • Ameerega planipaleae (Morales and Velazco, 1998)
  • Ameerega pongoensis (Schulte, 1999)
  • Ameerega pulchripecta (Silverstone, 1976)
  • Ameerega rubriventris (Lötters, Debold, Henle, Glaw, and Kneller, 1997)
  • Ameerega silverstonei (Myers and Daly, 1979)
  • Ameerega simulans (Myers, Rodriguez, and Icochea, 1998)
  • Ameerega smaragdina (Silverstone, 1976)
  • Ameerega trivittata (Spix, 1824)
  • Ameerega yoshina Brown and Twomey, 2009
  • Ameerega yungicola (Lötters, Schmitz, and Reichle, 2005)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ameerega Bauer, 1986". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  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., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
  4. ↑ Vaz-Silva, W. & Maciel, N.M. (2011). "A new cryptic species of Ameerega (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from Brazilian Cerrado." Zootaxa 2826: 57-68.