Oreobates

Oreobates
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Subfamily: Holoadeninae
Genus: Oreobates
Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
Type species
Oreobates quixensis
Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
Diversity
23 species (see text)
Synonyms

Teletrema Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937

Oreobates is a frog genus of in the Craugastoridae family.[1] Most species were formerly in the genus Ischnocnema, but were moved to this revalidated genus following a 2006 revision.[2] Its sister taxon is Lynchius.[1]

These frogs are found in the lower slopes of the Andes into the upper Amazon Basin from Colombia south to northern Argentina and east into western Brazil.[1]

Description

Oreobates are small to medium-sized frogs with males measuring 20–44 mm (0.79–1.73 in) and females 25–63 mm (0.98–2.48 in) in snout–vent length. They are generally brownish in colour. Body is robust with a short snout. The toes lack discs and fingers have reduced or absent discs; there is no webbing.[3]

Oreobates lay terrestrial eggs that undergo direct development.[3]

Species

There are 23 Oreobates species:[1]

  • Oreobates amarakaeri Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
  • Oreobates ayacucho (Lehr, 2007)
  • Oreobates barituensis Vaira & Ferrari, 2008
  • Oreobates berdemenos Pereyra, Cardozo, Baldo, and Baldo, 2014
  • Oreobates choristolemma (Harvey and Sheehy, 2005)
  • Oreobates crepitans (Bokermann, 1965)
  • Oreobates cruralis (Boulenger, 1902)
  • Oreobates discoidalis (Peracca, 1895)
  • Oreobates gemcare Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
  • Oreobates granulosus (Boulenger, 1903)
  • Oreobates heterodactylus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
  • Oreobates ibischi (Reichle, Lötters, and De la Riva, 2001)
  • Oreobates lehri (Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2007)
  • Oreobates lundbergi (Lehr, 2005)
  • Oreobates machiguenga Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012
  • Oreobates madidi (Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, and De la Riva, 2005)
  • Oreobates pereger (Lynch, 1975)
  • Oreobates quixensis Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
  • Oreobates remotus Teixeira, Amaro, Recoder, Sena, and Rodrigues, 2012
  • Oreobates sanctaecrucis (Harvey and Keck, 1995)
  • Oreobates sanderi (Padial, Reichle, and De la Riva, 2005)
  • Oreobates saxatilis (Duellman, 1990)
  • Oreobates zongoensis (Reichle and Köhler, 1997)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Oreobates Jiménez de la Espada, 1872". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Caramaschi, Ulisses; Canedo, Clarrisa (2006). "Reassessment of the taxonomic status of the genera Ischnocnema Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 and Oreobates Jiménez-de-la-Espada, 1872, with notes on the synonymy of Leiuperus verrucosus Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 (Anura: Leptodactylidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa 1116: 43–54.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Padial, José M.; Chaparro, Juan C.; De La Riva, Ignacio (2008). "Systematics of Oreobates and the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Amphibia, Anura), based on two mitochondrial DNA genes and external morphology". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152 (4): 737–773. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00372.x.